Duclot Bordeaux Collection 2023

An iconic namesake creation by Bordeaux merchant, DUCLOT. This annual collection features a limited edition case containing 9 of the best names Bordeaux has to offer. A special mixed case of 9 bottles containing one bottle each of:

• Château d’Yquem 2023
• Château Haut-Brion 2023
• Château La Mission Haut-Brion 2023
• Château Mouton Rothschild 2023
• Château Lafite Rothschild 2023
• Château Margaux 2023
• Château Ausone 2023
• Château Cheval Blanc 2023
• Château Petrus 2023

Château Haut-Brion 2023 -"This is an exceptional Haut-Brion, offering juice and elegant balance alongside classically structured layers, generous but restrained, sense of architecture and building blocks of a truly great Left Bank wine. Rippling with sinewy muscles, juicy and controlled, packed with cocoa bean, espresso, liouqorice root, but none of these flavours dominate, knitted together, with a vertical lift. 100% new oak, Jean-Philippe Delmas director, Jean-Philippe Masclef technical director, no outside consultant." Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux, (04/18/2024) Ratings: 98-100 Drink: 2035-2050

Château Mouton Rothschild 2020 - "This is an exceptional Haut-Brion, offering juice and elegant balance alongside classically structured layers, generous but restrained, sense of architecture and building blocks of a truly great Left Bank wine. Rippling with sinewy muscles, juicy and controlled, packed with cocoa bean, espresso, liouqorice root, but none of these flavours dominate, knitted together, with a vertical lift. 100% new oak, Jean-Philippe Delmas director, Jean-Philippe Masclef technical director, no outside consultant." Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux, (04/18/2024) Ratings: 98-100 Drink: 2035-2050

Château Lafite Rothschild 2023 -''This hits you right off the first nose, driven by slate and crushed rocks, setting the tone and the architecture, guiding the fruit through the palate. Cassis, bilberry, tobacco leaf, graphite, crushed mint, finessed and sculpted, this is a gorgeous Lafite, with fine tannins and the squid ink character that seems to be present in all of this stable of wines except Moulin de Duhart. Hidden power, where nothing is too much and yet everything is concentrated, once again proving that the terroir at this particular spot has its own personality that stands out every year. High Cabernet as ever, combined with around 15% press wine. Not the concentration of 2022, but in many ways showcasing the essence of Lafite more squarely, and this will delight anyone lucky enough to own it in future years. 45hl/h yield, highest since 2015, harvest September 7 to 29. 100% new oak. New cellar underway, due for completion in 2027. I am giving it 10 years to begin entering its opening window, a little less than usual but it will make no difference to how long you can cellar it.'' Jane Anson, Best Pomerol 2020 Wines Tasted En Primeur (04/15/2024) Ratings : 98-100 Drink: 2033-2055

Château Margaux 2020 -"The 2023 Château Margaux is fabulous. Sensual, silky and exceptionally polished, the 2023 Château Margaux is shaping up to be a classic. Seamless, silky tannins wrap around a core of dark red/purplish fruit. Hints of spice, new leather, menthol, licorice and rose petal fill out the glass. There's a bit of new oak peeking through today, but that won't be an issue in a few years' time. Only Bordeaux can produce wines that offer so much flavor intensity at a low alcohols. Margaux is the least showy of the First Growths, but it is often the most refined. The 2023 is sublime" Antonio Galloni, Vinous, Ratings: (97-100) 

Château Ausone 2023 - "The 2023 Ausone reveals an incipient bouquet of violet, smoke, dark wild berries, spices and cherries, all beautifully interwoven with creamy new oak. Medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with a rich chassis of tannin, it has a vibrant core of fruit and a long, mineral, vanillin-inflected finish. At 60% Cabernet Franc and 40% Merlot, this ranks alongside the 2014 vintage as one of the most Cabernet-dominant Ausone vintages of recent years, and it will mature for 20 months in new oak barrels." Yohan Castaing, The Wine Advocate (04/26/2024) Ratings: (95-97) Drink: 2025-2055

Château Cheval Blanc 2023 - "Contrasts intensity and depth with nuance and softly spoken character. Lift and tension, precisely placed cocoa bean, liqourice root, tomato leaf, tannins, violet and peony florals and slate, sinewy, slow-tug tannins, powerful with lift off. Has plenty to say and demands that you slow down to hear it. 40hl/h yield, 75% of overall production (no press wine as ever), harvest September 6 to October 3. Pierre-Olivier Clouet director." Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux (04/19/2024) Ratings: 98 Drink: 2032-2050

Château La Mission Haut-Brion 2023 - Not yet rated

Château d'Yquem 2023 - Not yet rated

Château Petrus 2023 - Not yet rated