layers and plushness make for an absolutely DELICIOUS drink right now

The 2019 Léoville Las Cases is a brilliant young wine that will delight Bordeaux purists

and dark cherries

and sensual wine that requires time to unfold its full potential

making it a classic and age-worthy Bordeaux

Promontory, Napa Valley, 2012, 75cl 100RP layers and plushness make forThe 2012 Promontory, which is the softest vintage to date, was slightly better this year than last year, as it had rounded out. It does not have the depth of the 2013, but it is a great wine on its own merits. Notes of new saddle leather, loamy soil, and crushed rock intermingle with blackcurrants, plum, tobacco leaf and spice in a full bodied, wonderfully pure and large scaled style with ripe, well integrated tannin. It is accessible enough to enjoy,