{"title":"New Bordeaux Cellar 11\/2026","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"chateau-lagrange-saint-julien-1998","title":"Chateau Lagrange, Saint-Julien, 1998","description":"This is a 1998 Third Growth Saint-Julien from the highest ground in the appellation, and it was made as Suntory's long rebuild of the estate was starting to pay off. After Suntory took over Lagrange, it brought in Marcel Ducasse, a graduate of the Bordeaux Institute of Oenology, to restructure the whole property. The first ten years went to an ambitious renovation, and the full rebirth took more than thirty years of investment. That puts the 1998 at an interesting point: the estate was making serious wine again. The vineyard is a single 118-hectare block on the west side of Saint-Julien, spread over two slopes of Gunzian gravel, one of which holds the appellation's highest point. Today the estate is planted mostly to Cabernet Sauvignon, with Merlot and a little Petit Verdot. Older classified Left Bank Bordeaux rarely comes at a sensible price, but Lagrange has long sat a little under the radar compared with its more famous neighbors. Stand the bottle upright a day before you open it, and decant gently.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047936032825,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-48-5","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Lagrange-Saint-Julien-1998-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696446"},{"product_id":"chateau-branaire-ducru-saint-julien-2001","title":"Chateau Branaire-Ducru, Saint-Julien, 2000","description":"Branaire-Ducru files its 2000 under \"Legendary,\" and that's the château's own word for it. Twenty-five years on, this bottle shows you what the label means. It wasn't an easy year. An unstable, especially wet spring had growers worried until the sun came out in May and stayed through June. Very hot, dry spells in July and August calmed everyone's nerves, and summer heat in September made for ideal picking. The estate sits in Saint-Julien, between Margaux and Pauillac, with vines planted in gravel and pebbles the Garonne left behind. That gravel makes it one of the warmest sites in the region, and that pays off in a year that finished with this much sun. The house says its style is built on fruit, freshness and elegance, and its verdict on the 2000 is a big, spicy wine that's still firm and can keep for several decades. So there's no hurry, but if you've been looking for a great Bordeaux vintage with real age on it, this is a very good place to start.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047936065593,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-49-13","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Branaire-Ducru-Saint-Julien-2000-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_39a016bd.jpg?v=1793696457"},{"product_id":"chateau-la-conseillante-pomerol-1995-1-bottle-distressed-label","title":"Chateau La Conseillante, Pomerol, 1995 (1 bottle distressed label)","description":"A thirty-year-old bottle from Pomerol's elegance specialist, a house that made its name on finesse, a soft texture and a perfume of violets and truffles rather than sheer muscle. By the estate's own account, the wine picks up the black truffle aromas typical of great plateau Merlot after about ten years in bottle, and a 1995 has had three times that long. The style starts in the ground: 60% grey clay and 40% sandy gravel over subsoils streaked with iron oxide, in a vineyard that sits partly on the Pomerol plateau and partly across the line in Saint-Émilion. The Nicolas family has owned La Conseillante since 1871. From 1971 to 2003 the cousins Francis and Bernard Nicolas ran it together and built new cellars that made the winemaking more precise. A fun detail for label-watchers: Louis Nicolas designed that label himself, with its cut-off corners, silver frame and an 'N' in the centre, and he gave the bottle its violet capsule. This is a single bottle and its label is distressed, so it's one for opening rather than showing off, which is how a bottle like this should end up anyway.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047936098361,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-50-B-9","price":259.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-La-Conseillante-Pomerol-1995-1-bottle-distressed-label-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696458"},{"product_id":"chateau-gruaud-larose-saint-julien-1999","title":"Chateau Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien, 1999","description":"A Second Growth Saint-Julien from 1999, a year the château itself calls a very good vintage, thanks to a hot, sunny summer and a dry run-in to harvest. The season started early, with budburst at the end of March. A very wet start to May gave way to a dry second half and a quick, even flowering, and from 10 August to 12 September the weather stayed hot and dry. The blend leans on Cabernet in classic Saint-Julien fashion: 61% Cabernet Sauvignon and 31% Merlot, with Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and a single percent of Malbec, all grown on 82 hectares of Garonne gravel laid down more than 600,000 years ago. Picking was done by hand, parcel by parcel and variety by variety, over more than three weeks, and the grapes were sorted three times before they reached the vats. One detail we like: the team tasted through the press wines and chose four of them for the barrels, where the wine spent 16 to 18 months in French oak. At 12.9% alcohol, this is Left Bank claret in its classic, moderate register.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047936458809,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-52-8","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Gruaud-Larose-Saint-Julien-1999-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696462"},{"product_id":"chateau-gruaud-larose-saint-julien-1989","title":"Chateau Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien, 1989","description":"This is Second Growth Saint-Julien from 1989, a vintage the château itself calls memorable for its exceptionally early ripening and rich grapes. A very hot, sunny May set the vines racing, the first flowers appeared around May 20, and a hot, dry September finished the job. The pickers could take their time: harvest ran from September 11 to September 23. The blend is classic Left Bank, with Cabernet Sauvignon at 65%, then 27% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, all grown on the estate's 82 hectares of Garonne gravel. It was fermented in cement tanks and aged 16 to 18 months in French oak. (A footnote for history buffs: this vintage was made while the estate was still part of the Cordier business, eight years before the Merlaut family bought it.) If you want to see what a sunny, unhurried year does to a Cabernet-led 1855 classified growth, this bottle makes the case.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047936557113,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-53-3","price":199.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Gruaud-Larose-Saint-Julien-1989-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_e067ed93.jpg?v=1793696473"},{"product_id":"chateau-grand-puy-lacoste-pauillac-2002","title":"Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Pauillac, 2001","description":"If you want to know what Pauillac is supposed to taste like, start here: the estate itself calls the 2001 Grand-Puy-Lacoste \"a very typical Pauillac\" and a beautiful expression of its terroir. That terroir is very deep, coarse gravel on the Grand-Puy plateau, which rises just west of the village of Pauillac on the left bank of the Gironde. All the vines sit in a single block around the château. The 2001 is 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc, picked between 1 and 14 October. The Borie family has run the estate since 1978, when Raymond Dupin chose Jean-Eugène Borie as its buyer. Jean-Eugène handed it to his son François-Xavier, whose job was to wake a \"sleeping beauty.\" He planted where needed, improved the drainage and changed the trellising, and he and Marie-Hélène Borie restored the château. One bit of trivia we love: unusually among the 1855 classified growths, GPL's plots still match the land register of that era. This is serious, classic Pauillac without the trophy-label pretension, and a back-vintage bottle worth seeking out.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047937212473,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-55-12","price":149.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Grand-Puy-Lacoste-Pauillac-2001-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_de5e3d95.jpg?v=1793696486"},{"product_id":"chateau-pape-clement-pessac-leognan-1999","title":"Chateau Pape Clement, Pessac-Leognan, 1999","description":"This is a classified Pessac-Léognan red that has already spent a quarter-century in bottle, the kind of back-vintage Bordeaux most people never get to taste unless they put it in their own cellar years ago. Pape Clément made its first harvest in 1252. It takes its name from Bertrand de Goth, the younger son of a noble Bordeaux family, who planted the vineyard and became Pope Clement V in 1305 while serving as Archbishop of Bordeaux. The vines then belonged to the Archdiocese of Bordeaux until the French Revolution, and the estate has been a Grand Cru Classé de Graves since 1953. The vineyard sits on Pyrenean clayey gravel laid down in the late Pliocene and early Quaternary. The estate splits its grapes by soil: Merlot grows on the clay in the east and Cabernet on the gravel in the west. The 1999 was made about fourteen years after Bernard Magrez bought the château in 1985. As with any red this old, stand the bottle upright for a day and pour carefully.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047937278009,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-56-4","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Pape-Clement-Pessac-Leognan-1999-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696488"},{"product_id":"chateau-pape-clement-pessac-leognan-1985","title":"Chateau Pape Clement, Pessac-Leognan, 1985","description":"The 1985 is where the modern chapter of Pape Clément begins. It was the year Bernard Magrez took over the estate, and the year it made a definitive return to top-level production. Pape Clément was the very first vineyard Magrez ever bought, the first of all his acquisitions. The history before him is long and sometimes rough: the first harvest here came in 1252, and the name comes from Bertrand de Goth, the Archbishop of Bordeaux who became Pope Clement V in 1305. In the 1930s a violent hailstorm nearly destroyed the property, and Paul Montagne restored both the vineyard and the cellar before handing the estate on to Magrez. Today it's a Grand Cru Classé de Graves (it has held that status since 1953) in the Pessac-Léognan appellation. A forty-year-old bottle from the vintage that kicked off the estate's revival is a piece of Bordeaux history you can actually open. As with any red this old, stand it upright for a day and pour carefully.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047937572921,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-57-10","price":179.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Pape-Clement-Pessac-Leognan-1985-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696489"},{"product_id":"chateau-grand-puy-lacoste-pauillac-1995","title":"Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Pauillac, 1995","description":"Grand-Puy-Lacoste is a wine made for long ageing. The estate says it needs eight to ten years just to show its full potential, and this 1995 has had roughly three times that. If you want to understand why people fall for Pauillac, a mature GPL is the wine to pour. The 1995 is 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc, picked over a harvest that ran from 18 September all the way to 30 October. The estate's vines grow in a single block of very deep, coarse gravel around the château, on the Grand-Puy plateau just west of the village of Pauillac. One bit of trivia we love: unusually among the 1855 classified growths, GPL's plots still match the land register of that era. The Borie family (of Ducru-Beaucaillou) bought the estate in 1978. François-Xavier Borie then set out to revive a \"sleeping beauty,\" planting where needed, improving the drainage and changing the trellising, so by 1995 that work was nearly two decades in. This is classic, serious Pauillac without the trophy-label pretension, and an aged bottle worth seeking out.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047937605689,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-58-1","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Grand-Puy-Lacoste-Pauillac-1995-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_e9abb50d.jpg?v=1793696501"},{"product_id":"chateau-grand-puy-lacoste-pauillac-1998","title":"Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Pauillac, 1998","description":"If you want to understand why people fall for Pauillac, Grand-Puy-Lacoste is the wine to pour, and a back-vintage bottle like this 1998 is a fine way to do it. It's 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Merlot, harvested between 24 September and 7 October. The vines grow in a single block of very deep, coarse gravel around the château, on the Grand-Puy plateau just west of the village of Pauillac. The estate itself describes the 1998 as generous, with fine tannins and good fruit. The year carries some family weight too. Jean-Eugène Borie, who bought GPL in 1978 and also ran Ducru-Beaucaillou, died in 1998. By then his son François-Xavier had spent two decades reviving a \"sleeping beauty,\" planting where needed, improving the drainage and changing the trellising. One bit of trivia we love: unusually among the 1855 classified growths, GPL's plots still match the land register of that era. This is classic, serious Pauillac without the trophy-label pretension.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047937671225,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-59-1\/2","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Grand-Puy-Lacoste-Pauillac-1998-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_7f34bd5e.jpg?v=1793696512"},{"product_id":"chateau-malartic-lagraviere-pessac-leognan-2001","title":"Chateau Malartic-Lagraviere, Pessac-Leognan, 2001","description":"A classified-growth Pessac-Léognan from a year when the estate deliberately cut yields to just 24 hectolitres per hectare, chasing grapes rich in sugar, colour and tannin. Château Malartic-Lagravière, in Léognan near Bordeaux, is a Classified Growth of Graves for both its red and its white. The Bonnie family bought it at the end of 1996, so 2001 comes from the early years of their ownership. The vines grow on well-drained gravel and clay-gravel over shelly limestone and clay. In 2001 a hot, dry August made up for a cold, wet July, and the grapes came in fully ripe and healthy, Merlot from late September and the Cabernets through 12 October. The blend is 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc, aged 17 months in oak barrels, half of them new. Classic Graves with more than two decades in bottle, and you didn't have to cellar it yourself.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047938228281,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-61-2","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Malartic-Lagraviere-Pessac-Leognan-2001-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696514"},{"product_id":"domaine-de-chevalier-pessac-leognan-2000","title":"Domaine de Chevalier, Pessac-Leognan, 2000","description":"This is the red grand vin of Domaine de Chevalier, which the estate itself calls the flagship of Pessac-Léognan, from the 2000 vintage, so it already has a quarter-century in bottle. The vineyard is a clearing in the middle of a forest in Léognan, the main town of the Graves. The Bernard family treats those woods as protection for the vines and as a home for useful wildlife. The soil is classic Graves: gravel over a clay-gravel subsoil. The vines are planted at 10,000 per hectare, well above the appellation average of 6,500, which tells you how seriously this estate takes its farming. The Bernard family bought Chevalier in 1983, and Olivier Bernard has run it ever since, so this 2000 was made under his watch. It comes from a property already marked on Pierre de Belleyme's 1783 map. If you want to see what classified Left Bank red becomes with real age, this bottle lets you find out without waiting.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047938261049,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-62-2","price":169.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Domaine-de-Chevalier-Pessac-Leognan-2000-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_7991fd7d.jpg?v=1793696525"},{"product_id":"chateau-talbot-saint-julien-1996","title":"Chateau Talbot, Saint-Julien, 1996","description":"Mature classified-growth Saint-Julien is the bottle most of us mean to cellar and never do, and this 1996 Talbot has already done the waiting for you. Talbot was ranked a Fourth Growth in 1855. Its 111 hectares sit in a single block on hilltops of fine Günzian gravel over clay, on the banks of the Gironde estuary. That gravel was carried down by the Dordogne from the Massif Central and by the Garonne from the Pyrenees, and it drains very well. The grand vin is built around the higher gravel parcels on the plateau. The family story runs deep: Désiré Cordier bought the estate in 1918, and after the death of his grandson Jean, Jean's daughters Lorraine and Nancy took over. (Désiré was also mayor of Saint-Julien, and the signs he put up at the three entrances to the village are still standing.) Stand the bottle upright a day ahead and decant it gently off any sediment.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047938424889,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-63-11\/14","price":169.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Talbot-Saint-Julien-1996-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696527"},{"product_id":"chateau-cos-destournel-saint-estephe-2000","title":"Chateau Cos d'Estournel, Saint-Estephe, 2000","description":"Louis Gaspard d'Estournel—the \"Maharajah of Saint-Estèphe\"—built his estate with an eye toward exotic markets, shipping wine to India as early as 1838 and adorning his chai with pagodas and a door from the Sultan of Zanzibar's palace. The theatricality of the architecture belies the seriousness of the wine: Cos d'Estournel is one of Bordeaux's most consistent \"Super Seconds,\" often rivaling First Growths. The 2000 vintage is a millennium masterpiece across the Left Bank, and this blend of sixty percent Cabernet Sauvignon, thirty-eight percent Merlot, and two percent Cabernet Franc shows why. Opulent sandalwood, Chinese five spice, and cigar box scents frame a core of dark fruit, while wonderfully plush tannins carry a refreshing menthol lift through the finish. Now over twenty-five years old and entering peak drinking, with the structure to continue evolving for another fifteen to twenty years. One of the great Saint-Estèphes.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047938523193,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-64-14","price":299.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Cos-dEstournel-Saint-Estephe-2000-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_5a9c52bd.jpg?v=1793696538"},{"product_id":"chateau-leoville-barton-saint-julien-1996","title":"Chateau Leoville-Barton, Saint-Julien, 1996","description":"Nearly three decades on, this is a chance to pour a Saint-Julien Second Growth with the kind of bottle age most of us never have the patience (or the cellar space) to give it ourselves. Léoville Barton was ranked a Second Classified Growth in 1855, and the same family has held it the whole way through. Hugh Barton bought 50 hectares of Saint-Julien vines in 1826. He was the grandson of Thomas Barton, the Irishman who settled in Bordeaux in 1722 and set up as a wine merchant. Anthony Barton later brought the estate international recognition, and his daughter Lilian and her two children, the 10th generation, run it today. The vineyard sits on slopes of Garonne gravel facing the Gironde, over a clayey gravel subsoil, and it is ploughed the traditional way with no herbicide. That is classic Médoc ground for Cabernet-led wine with staying power. A house built on serious, traditional claret is best seen with some age on it, and this bottle has plenty. Stand it up a day ahead and decant gently to leave any sediment behind.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047938621497,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-65-1\/14","price":199.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Leoville-Barton-Saint-Julien-1996-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696539"},{"product_id":"chateau-cos-destournel-saint-estephe-1983","title":"Chateau Cos d'Estournel, Saint-Estephe, 1983","description":"The appeal here is simple: a Second Growth from Saint-Estèphe with more than forty years in bottle, so somebody else has already done the waiting. Cos d'Estournel was ranked a Second Growth in the 1855 classification. In 1820 its founder, Louis Gaspard d'Estournel, came up with the idea of an Asian-inspired palace at the heart of his vineyard. He built it on a rise known as the \"hill of pebbles\", and he went as far as India to sell his wine. The palace is the show, but that stony hill is why people still collect the wine. If you've ever wanted to know what a classed-growth Bordeaux from the early 1980s is like without having bought it young and waited four decades, this is your chance.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047938785337,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-66-6","price":189.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Cos-dEstournel-Saint-Estephe-1983-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793782945"},{"product_id":"les-forts-de-latour-pauillac-2001","title":"Les Forts De Latour, Pauillac, 2001","description":"Les Forts de Latour is the most direct way into Château Latour without paying for the grand vin: it's the château's second wine, made in Pauillac on Bordeaux's Left Bank. The 2001 is a dry red blend built on Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. That's the classic Pauillac formula, from one of the commune's great addresses. Second wines are where the value hides in top Bordeaux, giving you the house's name and approach at a fraction of the trophy price. A bottle that's now a quarter-century past its vintage adds the pleasure of drinking something with real age on it. Stand it upright for a day before opening and decant it off any sediment, then bring out the roast.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047938850873,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-67-6","price":239.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Les-Forts-De-Latour-Pauillac-2001-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696540"},{"product_id":"chateau-leoville-poyferre-saint-julien-1995","title":"Chateau Leoville-Poyferre, Saint-Julien, 1995","description":"This is a Saint-Julien Second Growth from a turning point in the château's history, now about thirty years on. Didier Cuvelier met the oenologist Michel Rolland in 1988 and brought him in to modernise the estate's style. In 1994 Léoville Poyferré became the first property on the Left Bank to work with him, which puts this 1995 among the very first vintages of that partnership. The château was ranked a Deuxième Grand Cru Classé in 1855. Centuries of inheritances and divisions left its vineyard in five large parcels that between them cover all of Saint-Julien's main gravel types, from the Mindel II gravels along the Gironde to the Mindel I terraces further inland, over sandy clay. The Cuvelier family, wine merchants in Lille since 1804, have owned the estate since 1920. If you're curious how a new direction at a classic house holds up over the long run, this bottle lets you find out.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047939047481,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-68-8","price":189.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Leoville-Poyferre-Saint-Julien-1995-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696541"},{"product_id":"chateau-pape-clement-pessac-leognan-1996","title":"Chateau Pape Clement, Pessac-Leognan, 1996","description":"This is a classified Pessac-Léognan red with almost three decades in bottle. Unless you laid one down yourself back then, it's very hard to get to taste mature Bordeaux from a historic estate like this one. Few wine estates anywhere have a longer story. Pape Clément's vineyard was first harvested in 1252, and it belonged to Bertrand de Goth, who became Pope Clement V in 1305 and kept managing the vines closely after his election (hence the name on the label). The estate has been a Grand Cru Classé de Graves since 1953. Its vines grow on clayey gravel washed down from the Pyrenees in the late Pliocene and early Quaternary, the gravel-based soil behind the reputation of this corner of southern Bordeaux. The 1996 was made under Bernard Magrez, who acquired the estate in the 1980s; Pape Clément was the first vineyard he ever bought. As with any red this old, stand the bottle upright for a day before opening and pour it carefully.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047939539001,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-72-9\/10","price":179.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Pape-Clement-Pessac-Leognan-1996-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696556"},{"product_id":"chateau-lynch-bages-pauillac-2001","title":"Chateau Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, 2001","description":"Lynch-Bages is the 5th Growth that has performed at 2nd Growth level for as long as anyone can remember — the Cazes-family Pauillac that built its reputation on richness, depth, and uncommon consistency across vintages both great and modest. The family has owned it since 1939 (Jean-Charles Cazes, great-grandson of the founder, runs it today), and that continuity shows in the cellar. 2001 was a classical structured Pauillac vintage — overshadowed at release by 2000, but a fundamentally well-built year that has aged on its own steady timeline. Twenty-four years on, the 2001 is fully mature and drinking at full song: cassis, cedar, graphite, that signature Pauillac smoky tobacco, dried herbs, leather. Tannins resolved, acidity bright, the wine's famed concentration now married to maturity. Drink over the next five-plus years.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047939670073,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-74-8","price":179.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Lynch-Bages-Pauillac-2001-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_6165fa12.jpg?v=1793782958"},{"product_id":"chateau-grand-puy-lacoste-pauillac-1975-under-shoulder-fill","title":"Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Pauillac, 1975 (under shoulder fill)","description":"Here's a chance to drink Grand-Puy-Lacoste from before the Borie era. The 1975 was made under Raymond Dupin, three vintages before he chose Jean-Eugène Borie as the estate's buyer in 1978 and François-Xavier Borie was given the job of waking up a \"sleeping beauty.\" Before the Bories, the estate had passed down within one lineage going back to the 16th century, so this bottle comes from the last years of that long chapter. The name comes from \"puy,\" an old word for a hill: the vines sit on a ridge about twenty metres above sea level, just west of the village of Pauillac on the left bank of the Gironde. The ground is deep gravel about two million years old, carried down from the Pyrenees by the Garonne and mixed with sand and a little clay, and it forces the vines to root deep. One piece of trivia we love: unusually among the 1855 classified growths, GPL's plots still match the land register of that era. To be straight with you, the fill on this bottle sits below the shoulder, and at this age that makes it a gamble. It's for the curious collector, not a sure-thing dinner-party bottle, so stand it upright for a day or two and open it carefully.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047940292665,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-76-B-10","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Grand-Puy-Lacoste-Pauillac-1975-under-shoulder-fill-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696561"},{"product_id":"chateau-dominique-saint-emilion-1985","title":"Chateau Dominique, Saint-Emilion, 1985","description":"A nearly forty-year-old Saint-Émilion whose vines share borders with Cheval Blanc, Figeac, La Conseillante and L'Evangile, which tells you a lot about the ground it comes from. Château La Dominique sits in the north-west corner of the appellation, right on the edge of Pomerol. Its soils straddle both worlds: clay-gravel plateaux like Pomerol's in the north, and in the south the clay-limestone and famous blue clays typical of Saint-Émilion, where the Merlot and Cabernet Franc grow. The 1985 was made under the Fayat family, who have owned the estate since 1969. If you want to know what mature Right Bank Bordeaux is about, an aged bottle from a neighbourhood this good is a great way to find out, without paying what its famous neighbours ask.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047940882489,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-79-10","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Dominique-Saint-Emilion-1985-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793782960"},{"product_id":"chateau-gruaud-larose-saint-julien-1996","title":"Chateau Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien, 1996","description":"A Cabernet-led Second Growth Saint-Julien from a year that combined plenty of sunshine with fairly cool temperatures. The château sums up 1996 as good sugar build-up, malic acid held in the grapes and a very healthy crop. It wasn't an easy season, though. A cold February meant late budburst, frost hit in early April, storms ran through a hot, humid June and July, August was cool, and heavy rain arrived from September 24th, with picking running from September 20th to October 10th. The blend is 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot, grown on 82 hectares of Garonne gravel laid down more than 600,000 years ago. Fermentation was split between wooden and cement tanks, each one tasted daily, and the team chose four press wines from the barrels before 16 to 18 months in fine-grain French oak, 30% of it renewed each year. (For history buffs: this is the last vintage before the Merlaut family bought the estate in 1997.) Classified-growth Saint-Julien with three decades in bottle is a rare thing to open, and this one comes with a full record of how it was made.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047941111865,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-81-10","price":189.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Gruaud-Larose-Saint-Julien-1996-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696566"},{"product_id":"chateau-angelus-saint-emilion-1999","title":"Chateau Angelus, Saint-Emilion, 1999","description":"Angelus nicknamed the 1999 \"l'inespéré\" (roughly, \"the unhoped-for\"), and this mature bottle is a chance to taste a Saint-Émilion Premier Grand Cru Classé that has had its full time in the cellar. It's 60% old-vine Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc from selected plots. That's a big share of Cabernet Franc for the Right Bank, and the house credits it with the freshness and elegance under the lush, creamy Angelus style. The vineyard sits in a natural amphitheatre on a south-facing slope, where summer heat collects and the vines start growing early. Underneath is limestone and clay, and the slope drains it naturally. Hubert de Boüard de Laforest grew up on the estate and followed six generations of his family there. He had run Angelus since 1985, and the 1999 came three years after the château was promoted to Premier Grand Cru Classé (the \"A\" rank followed in 2012). One practical note: the estate's own drinking window for this wine is 2020–2025, so open it now rather than keep it for later.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047941177401,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-82-11","price":359.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Angelus-Saint-Emilion-1999-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793782961"},{"product_id":"chateau-cheval-blanc-saint-emilion-1981-very-unrepairable-torn-labels","title":"Chateau Cheval Blanc, Saint-Emilion, 1981 (Missing Most of Label)","description":"Missing most of its label, this 1981 Cheval Blanc is a bottle for opening, not displaying, and that's the case for buying it. A damaged label matters to a collector thinking about resale. It stops mattering once the cork is out, which makes a bottle like this an accessible way into a mature vintage from one of Saint-Emilion's great names. Cheval Blanc has been in the commune for two centuries. Today the estate farms 39.5 hectares split into 55 plots, and vinifies each plot separately before blending. Its labels still carry the medal the house won at the 1862 Universal Exhibition in London (on this bottle, you'll have to take our word for it). It's a red now more than four decades old, so stand it upright a day ahead, decant gently off any sediment and plan to finish it the evening you open it.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047941242937,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-83-B-99","price":579.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Cheval-Blanc-Saint-Emilion-1981-Missing-Most-of-Label-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793782962"},{"product_id":"chateau-latour-pauillac-1988","title":"Chateau Latour, Pauillac, 1988","description":"A Pauillac with nearly four decades in bottle: the kind of wine most people only read about, from an estate whose wines have always asked for exactly this sort of patience. Latour is a powerful, uncompromising Bordeaux benchmark. The grand vin is made in the estate's structure-focused style. That style rewards waiting, and a 1988 means someone else has already done the waiting for you. It's a bottle to open and share. Stand it upright for a day before serving, then decant carefully off any sediment.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047941636153,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-86-1","price":599.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Latour-Pauillac-1988-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696587"},{"product_id":"chateau-petrus-pomerol-1996","title":"Chateau Petrus, Pomerol, 1996","description":"This is Petrus, the name the rest of Pomerol gets measured against, in a 1996 that has now had nearly three decades to come together in bottle. The estate's whole story starts with the clay. The vineyard sits on a plateau in eastern Pomerol, 40 metres above sea level and the highest point in the appellation. Under 60 to 80 cm of dark clay topsoil lies a dense, dark blue subsoil so hard that the roots can't get into it. That blue clay is smectite: once it takes on water it seals up and holds the moisture, so the vines can still draw on it through dry summers. The plateau has only about 15 hectares of it, and the entire 11.5-hectare Petrus vineyard sits on top, while its neighbours get it only in patches. You're paying for an address no one else can copy, and for once the legend has a geological explanation. Stand the bottle upright a day before opening and decant it gently.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047942160441,"sku":"NYC-[PVT]-NC11026-110226-90-10","price":3250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Petrus-Pomerol-1996-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1793696592"}],"url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/new-bordeaux-cellar-11-2026.oembed?page=2","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}