2015 Muga - AroColour : Red Producer : Muga Label Name : Aro Country : Spain Region : Rioja Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 2015 Capacity : 750 ml Standard Bottle Rating : RP96 Robert Parker Wine Advocate Tasting Note : This is always powerful and concentrated, a selection and blending exercise of individual plants from select vineyards, healthier vines, those that produced smaller bunches, and so on. It started off quite closed, but the first impression was

and it delivered all that I saw when I tasted it blind

occupying a privileged position on the finest clay and gravel soils of the Pomerol plateau adjacent to Pétrus and Lafleur

The palate is very well balanced with a fine thread of acidity

with the vintage’s natural austerity softened by the development of autolytic complexity while the wine’s fundamental mineral character remains entirely intact

—Roger Voss

—Neal Martin

The Cuvée Belle Hélène has attracted a dedicated following among collectors of serious northern Rhône Syrah who seek wines of individual parcel identity and documented quality from outside the most commercially prominent Côte-Rôtie names

Colour : Red Producer : Carbonnieux Country : France Region : Bordeaux Sub Region : Pessac-Leognan Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 1975 Capacity : 1

even a bit youthfully aggressive today

Colour : Red Producer : Beaucastel Label Name : Chateauneuf du Pape Hommage A Jacques Perrin Country : France Region : Rhone Sub Region : Chateauneuf du Pape Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 2017 Capacity : 750 ml - Standard Bottle Rating :

suffused with tobacco

Colour : Red Producer : Verite Label Name : Le Desir Sonoma County Country : USA Region : California Sub Region : North Coast Appellation : Sonoma County Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 2013 Capacity : 750 ml - Standard Bottle Rating : RP99 - Robert Parker Wine Advocate Tasting Note : Opaque purple