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CWM Ranking: First Class 85 % Merlot, 15 % Cabernet Franc. Yield just 19 hl/ha. Only a road divides this property from St Émilion. Under the same ownership as Ch. Faugeres and Ch. Peby Faugeres. This is a starting point for the more complex Faugeres wines. The vineyards are surrounded by hillsides, perfect for water draining and sun exposure. South facing with limestone and clay subsoil. No barriques were used at all this vintage; 80% Stainless steel, 20% oak vats. Deep ruby, concentrated. Inviting rich open nose with raspberry, blueberry. Opulent full bodied juicy and big, the tannins a bit rustic but decent concentration. Ripe and generous, medium+ body, well balanced and long. Powdery tannins, peppery finish. Chewy.

CWM Ranking High 2:1 53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot. 32% new oak. Savoury, curranty nose, Firm, dry and savoury on the palate too, with blackcurrant fruit and chewy but yielding tannins chewy. Fresh, elegant finish.

CWM Ranking: First Class 57.5% cabernet sauvignon, 38% merlot, 4.5% petit verdot and just 21 hl/ha as a result of mildew attacks in the spring, deep gravels affecting younger vines. Deep ruby, nice straightforward nose, cabernet on gravels, oak, very well defined medium body, charming fruit, texture, good length and clean acidity. Very good.

CWM Rating - High 2:1 13.9% 34 hl/ha. 54CS 34M 6PV & 6CF 2020 is about roundness, opulence. Not a big wine as not big extraction, mid palate built on fatness, soft tannins, fresh finish. Plenty of flavour and texture.

CWM Ranking - High 2:1 72% Cabernet Sauvignon 28% Merlot 12 months in barrel, 50% new. 13.5% ABV. Deep ruby, Spices, cedar, blackcurrant and blackberry aromas, plenty of extraction with fine grained tannins and juicy dark fruits, some dried fruit and cocoa. Good structure behind its deep flavours and a crispness.

CWM Ranking - High 2:1 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc. Dark ruby. A touch of menthol blends with blueberries, blackberries and dusty oak. Dense, structured, concentrated with plenty of dusty tannins. Plenty of black fruits. Full on extraction gives the wine texture, depth and length. Fresh.

91/100 Jane Anson, Decanter "Fragrant with fresh lilac and peonies on the aromatics, fairly high acidities overall with sculpted blackcurrant fruits. A higher level of Cabernet Sauvignon than in recent years after the replanting in the vineyard. 1% Cabernet Franc completes the blend, 3.85pH, 60% new oak. A yield of 33hl/ha."

CWM Ranking - First Class 59 % Merlot, 37% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3 % Petit Verdot, 1 % Cabernet Franc. 40% new oak testing amphora One of the fourteen newly classified Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel. The estate now stands at 80ha after recent acquisitions, with a production of c. 350,000 bottles. Creamy fresh black cherry nose, no obvious smoky oak or dried fruit. Plenty of ripe tannin and medium full bodied lots of charm. Extracted but forward.

CWM Ranking: Starred First 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 13% Petit Verdot. All picked in second half of September. Dark ruby, Exotic aromas with primary and secondary characteristics already present. Big yet silky palate with lots of cassis, plums, chocolate. Supple, juicy, well structured. Creamy oak but well integrated with ripe fruit. Very good. Precise, well balanced, poised. Rich and long finish. Quite luxurious. Excellent integration of tannins, acidity, and alcohol. Certainly a keeper.

CWM Ranking - First Class 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc. Veronique Dausse considers this a good vintage for St Estephe. The clay soils protected the vines from water stress during the drought-like summer. There is a lot of Merlot planted across the 70ha of vineyards at Phelan Segur. Average yield for St Estephe 41hl ha . 44hl ha at Phelan, clay helped. Deep dark ruby, chocolate and cassis nose, good concentration, fresh and energetic, long, fine and precise. Tannins were well integrated and well balanced.

Terrific white burgundy from a small named vineyard in Santenay but not in the appellation. The Bachey-Legros family have given the name of the vineyard to the wine to show its excellent and singular terroir. It is ripe, exotic, a little oaky and with great presence.

Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion – 5th April, 2022 99 points Australia's finest single-vineyard site? I think so. With its core of gnarled shiraz vines planted circa 1860 and its picture-perfect location alongside the Gnadenberg church, it is a much adored and discussed vineyard which has been producing stellar wines since the first single-vineyard Hill of Grace was released in 1958. Today, those original vines are bolstered with its 'young' 100+ and 35+yo kinfolk and aged in 83/17% French/American oak hogsheads (29% new) for 18 months. Grace by name, grace by nature; it's a perfectly framed, elegant snapshot of pristine fruit, site and season. Precisely ripened berry fruits are underscored with notes of Chinese five-spice, sage, jasmine, licorice, mocha, blackberry pastille, charcuterie, wild flowers and cherry clafoutis. Pitch-perfect and elegant on the palate, the tannin-acid architecture tuned and sympatico with the pristine ancestor-vine fruit and a very long, silken finish that resonates with style and place. My goodness it's lovely. Sarah Ahmed, Decanter – 29th March, 2022 99 points Muscular with great vitality and sensuality, Hill of Grace 2017 combines gravitas with grace. Supple swathes of fruit – blackberry with blueberry and red cherry – come scented with china ink, tinder bush, black pepper, star anise, wattleseed, tea leaf and baking spices. Tobacco pouch, mulch and subtle game undertones strike a savoury note. Rafts of seamless, spicy tannins build and buoy layers of flavour. Terrific authority, strength, complexity and length. Drinking Window 2023 – 2047

CWM Ranking: First Class 61% CS 34% M 5% PV deep ruby, gravelly Cabernet nose, plenty of ripe fruit and oak, ripe fruit, quite elegant medium body, decent level of tannin and acidity. Balanced and structured. Drink in 5-10 years.

CWM Ranking - High 2:1 55% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot Dark ruby. Ripe cassis nose with some vanilla and spice. Fine and poised palate, all rather silky and fresh yet with plenty of blackcurrant and plum flavour, and ripe tannin. Medium bodied.

CWM Ranking: First Class 57.5% cabernet sauvignon, 38% merlot, 4.5% petit verdot and just 21 hl/ha as a result of mildew attacks in the spring, deep gravels affecting younger vines. Deep ruby, nice straightforward nose, cabernet on gravels, oak, very well defined medium body, charming fruit, texture, good length and clean acidity. Very good.

Wine Advocate James Suckling Decanter Jeb Dunnuck Jancis Robinson Jean-Marc Quarin 93-95 96-97 94 95-97 18 17 Jancis Robinson "85.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.5% Merlot. Aged for 18 months in barrel (60% new). Lustrous purple. Minerally, stony, saline nose. Really remarkably opulent on palate entry which almost distracts from those massive tannins underneath. There's just a suggestion of vintage port tannins here (not the sweetness). Very fine winemaking indeed. I have to admit I was tempted to swallow this, it was so majestic. I don't remember being as bowled over by a Léoville Barton at this early stage before. Lovely, confident, persistent finish. Such grace!"

More classic Sauternes style. Rich stone fruits, a smoky backbone, and a syrupy finish. Declared a 1er Cur Classé at the 1855 Sauternes and Barsac Classification, Château Coutet has been producing wine since 1643. Boasting both the largest vineyard in Barsac (thirty-eight-and-a-half hectares) as well as the largest cellar (110 meters), Château Coutet has been owned by the Baly family since 1977 and managed by Aline Baly since 2009.