Cellar Collection: June feature - SOLD OUT
| Product Name | LCBO# | Region | Score | mL | $/btl. | Qty. Avail. | Qty |
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Hewitson The Mad Hatter Shiraz 2022
Hewitson The Mad Hatter Shiraz 2022Barossa Valley, South Australia 0055608 (XD) 14% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $45.00 TASTING NOTE : The Mad Hatter represents a parcel selection from sites across the Barossa. The fruit is ripe and velvety, all blackberry and blueberries with hints of baking spices, vanillin oak, chocolate, ginger snaps, violets and lighter notes of tobacco lead and roasting meats. There's a pithiness to the fine tannins, which gently tug at the roof of the mouth, slowly fading away with ripe, spiced fruits and a pleasing sense of harmony. Drink from: 2023. Drink by: 2033. Score - 93. (Dave Brookes, winecompanion.com.au, May 4, 2024)
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0055608
| South Australia | 93 (AWC) | 750 | $45.00 | 0 |
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Ochota Barrels Texture Like Sun Sector Red 2023
Ochota Barrels Texture Like Sun Sector Red 2023South Australia 0041790 (XD) 12% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $56.00 TASTING NOTE : This complex blend of Pinot Noir, Gewürztraminer (that saw some skin contact), Syrah, Gamay, and Pinot Meunier brings an exciting rush of red fruit, cassis, smoky earth, cigar box, and white pepper. It's plump and luscious, but without sacrificing balance or drinkability. A unique and very fine wine.
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0041790
| South Australia | | 750 | $56.00 | 0 |
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Two Hands Lily's Garden Shiraz 2021
Two Hands Lily's Garden Shiraz 2021McLaren Vale, South Australia 0683086 (XD) 16% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $63.00 TASTING NOTE : The commitment here to showcasing Pandora's box of shiraz is admirable, each cuvee strongly tethered to its respective region. Here, McLaren Vale fruitcake and baking spices, clove, star anise and boysenberry. The palate expands admirably, absorbing the kit of oak that has more of an old-school astringency feeling than the other cuvees. The finish, pulsing, saline and long, shedding the obvious sweetness with air as the tannins grow in stature and grasp the wine's scruff, imparting a confident augur of age-worthiness. Drink or hold [into the mid-late 2030s]. Score - 95. (Ned Goodwin, MW, jamessuckling.com, Aug. 1, 2023)
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0683086
| South Australia | 95 (JS) | 750 | $63.00 | 0 |
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| Canada |
Martin's Lane Simes Vineyard Riesling 2023
Martin's Lane Simes Vineyard Riesling 2023BC VQA British Columbia 0036363 (M) 10% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $51.00 TASTING NOTE : This Kabinett-style, light-bodied riesling has terrific apricot fruit and a lively lemon and lime acidity that make it taste quite a bit drier than it really is. Spot-on balance and a wonderful purity in the crystalline finish. Excellent aging potential. Drink or hold. Score - 93. (Stuart Pigott, jamessuckling.com, Sept. 17, 2024)
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0036363
| British Columbia | 93 (JS) | 750 | $51.00 | 0 |
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| Chile |
Undurraga Trama Pinot Noir 2022
Undurraga Trama Pinot Noir 2022DO Valle de San Antonio 0016812 (XD) 14% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $45.00 TASTING NOTE : Trama is one of those wines that you want to press on your Pinot Noir-loving friends, an outstanding bargain from one of Chile's best winemakers. Fermented with 15% whole bunches for perfume and texture, it's an unoaked, limestone-influenced style exhibiting lots of focus and minerality and flavours of pomegranate and red cherry. Drink date: 2025-2030. Score - 95. (timatkin.com, Chile Special Report 2024)
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0016812
| San Antonio Valley | 95 (TAT) | 750 | $45.00 | 0 |
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| France |
Anne-Sophie Pic & Michel Chapoutier Cornas 2022
Anne-Sophie Pic & Michel Chapoutier Cornas 2022AC 0042211 (XD) 13% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $75.00 TASTING NOTE : This wine is a blend of Syrah from three vineyards: one in the foothills, with a granite bedrock; one to the north in Arlettes, its soils granite and limestone; and the third at higher altitude in Saint-Pierre, featuring granitic sands with limestone and silt. Harvested by hand, the fruit is vinified in concrete and the resulting wine is aged for 14 months in oak barrels. Savour this powerful, taut, mineral-laced wine through at least 2030.
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0042211
| Rhône | | 750 | $75.00 | 0 |
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Billaud-Simon Mont de Milieu Chablis 1er Cru 2019
Billaud-Simon Mont de Milieu Chablis 1er Cru 2019AC 0029608 (XD) 14% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $96.00 TASTING NOTE : Sustainably grown from vines 50-years-plus in age, this wine is reductive, with good tension. It is medium-bodied yet powerful and vibrant with a palate loaded with fresh pears and apple flesh, white mushroom and chalk, with a warm toasty finish from roughly 14 months of barrel aging. While enjoyable in its youth, cellaring for another three to five years is recommended. Score - 93. (Anna-Christina Cabrales, Wine Enthusiast, April 1, 2023)
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0029608
| Burgundy | 93 (WE) | 750 | $96.00 | 0 |
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Billaud-Simon Vaudésir Chablis Grand Cru 2020
Billaud-Simon Vaudésir Chablis Grand Cru 2020AC 0328336 (XD) 13% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $177.00 TASTING NOTE : The Vaudésir was racked into a demi muid to aerate it further. Pale lemon colour. There is an incipient opulence to this, a very faint coconut, and just the start of a future perfume. A wealth of fruit on the palate, more in yellow plum mode, with a little bitterness to finish, very good long-term potential. Excellent length. 10 years please. Drink from 2030-2038. Tasted June 2022. Score - 94. (Jasper Morris, MW, insideburgundy.com, Feb. 2023)
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0328336
| Burgundy | 94 (IB) | 750 | $177.00 | 0 |
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Château Haut-Bages Monpelou 2016
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou 2016AC Pauillac 0041922 (XD) 13% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $68.00 TASTING NOTE : Lots of pure cabernet aromas with currants and flowers. Dried lavender, too. Full body, firm and silky tannins and a long, flavorful finish. Lovely length. Try after 2022. An under the radar Pauillac to look for. [Drink into early 2030s.] Score - 93. (jamessuckling.com, Jan. 20, 2019)
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0041922
| Bordeaux | 93 (JS) | 750 | $68.00 | 0 |
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Château Lafite Rothschild 2006
Château Lafite Rothschild 2006AC Pauillac, 1er cru 0042631 (XD) 13% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $2,151.00 TASTING NOTE : One of the fabulous surprises, although I had suggested last year that it could jump in quality, of my tastings, the 2006 Lafite Rothschild is a great, great wine made from a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot. When I tasted it from barrel, it reminded me of their successful 1988, but it is dramatically superior to that vintage. Frankly, it may turn out to be as good as the 2005, which in all of Bordeaux is a far greater vintage than 2006. Lafite's severe selection process (42% made it into the grand vin) resulted in a full-bodied wine boasting an extraordinary perfume of charcoal, truffles, lead pencil shavings, and sensationally sweet, ripe black currant and cedar notes. A wine of extraordinary intensity, texture, and depth with silky tannins as well as awesome concentration, this has turned out to be a remarkable Lafite Rothschild that should be drinkable much earlier than the 2005, but age for three decades. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2035+. Score - 97. (Robert Parker Jr., robertparker.com, Feb. 24, 2009)
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0042631
| Bordeaux | 97 (RP) | 750 | $2,151.00 | 0 |
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Château Lafite Rothschild 2009
Château Lafite Rothschild 2009AC Pauillac, 1er cru 0042633 (XD) 14% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $2,597.00 TASTING NOTE : The main reason the 2009 Lafite Rothschild did not receive a perfect score is because the wine has closed down slightly, but it is unquestionably another profound Lafite, their greatest wine since the amazing 2003. Among the most powerful Lafites ever made (it came in at 13.59% alcohol), the final blend was 82.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot and the rest Petit Verdot. The selection was incredibly severe with only 45% of the crop being utilized. A tight, but potentially gorgeous nose of graphite, black currants, licorice and camphor is followed by a full-bodied wine revealing the classic elegance, purity and delineated style of Lafite. It is phenomenally concentrated with softer tannins than the 2005, the 2003's voluptuous, broad, juicy personality, and low acidity. There are several vintages that I thought were a replay of their colossal 1959, most notably 1982 and 2003, but 2009 is also one to keep an eye on. It is still extremely youthful and seems slightly more backward than I would have guessed based on the barrel tastings, but it needs 10-15 years of bottle age, and should last for 50+. Drink date: 2022-2072. Score - 99+-. (Robert Parker Jr., robertparker.com, Dec. 22, 2011)
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0042633
| Bordeaux | 99+- (RP) | 750 | $2,597.00 | 0 |
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Château Lafite Rothschild 2014
Château Lafite Rothschild 2014AC Pauillac, 1er cru 0042632 (XD) 12% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $1,854.00 TASTING NOTE : Fragrant and deeply herbal, a mixture of fresh and savoury. Clean and clear, immediately quite zingy with acidity to the fore and while this doesn't get any weightier, and is definitely not plush, it continues the same initial flavour from start to a long finish. Keeps direction and definition, finessed and so well delivered. Balanced and harmonious, it's not shouting as Lafite never does, but this maintains a well proportioned expression and you feel like you could drink this now as well as age it further - it's almost timeless in that aspect. Slightly grainy, mineral-edged tannins on the finish. Structured despite being quite light. I love it. Drinking window: 2024-2046. Score - 98. (Georgina Hindle, decanter.com, June 27, 2024)
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0042632
| Bordeaux | 98 (DEC) | 750 | $1,854.00 | 0 |
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Château Petit-Village 2014
Château Petit-Village 2014AC Pomerol 0041926 (XD) 14% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $194.00 TASTING NOTE : Quite an earthy, solid wine with plenty of power and concentration but a bit less charm than many of the 2014 Pomerols. The tannins on the finish are a bit chewy, but they should harmonize in time and there's plenty of fruit in there. Better in 2020. [Drink into the early 2030s.] Score - 93. (jamessuckling.com, Feb. 13, 2017)
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0041926
| Bordeaux | 93 (JS) | 750 | $194.00 | 0 |
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Collines de L'If 2019
Collines de L'If 2019AC Saint-Émilion, second wine of Ch. L'If 0041936 (XD) 14% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $72.00 TASTING NOTE : This is the second wine of L'If, which is situated on the plateau of Saint-Émilion next to Château Troplong Mondot. L'If joined the Jacques Thienpont family portfolio of estates in 2010. This blend of mostly Merlot with Cabernet Franc spent 12 months in barrels, half of them new. Expect a bold, rich wine with impressive length and poise.
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0041936
| Bordeaux | | 750 | $72.00 | 0 |
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Domaine Au Pied du Mont Chauve Clos des Fiètres Corton Grand Cru 2015
Domaine Au Pied du Mont Chauve Clos des Fiètres Corton Grand Cru 2015AC 0044195 (XD) 14% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $296.00 TASTING NOTE : The clos is a 0.7-acre plot situated in the center of the village of Alox Corton. This rich wine is dominated by opulent, ripe black fruits that are backed by generous tannins. Swatches of acidity cut through this still-young wine. It will age well; don't drink before 2024. Cellar Selection. Score - 95. (Roger Voss, Wine Enthusiast, Oct. 1, 2018)
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0044195
| Burgundy | 95 (WE) | 750 | $296.00 | 0 |
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Domaine Louis Moreau Les Fourneaux Chablis 1er Cru 2021
Domaine Louis Moreau Les Fourneaux Chablis 1er Cru 2021AC 0042634 (XD) 13% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $55.00 TASTING NOTE : A precise, smooth and layered example of Les Fourneaux. Plenty of acidity to balance the slightly exotic fruit on the palate. Appealing stony freshness on the finish. Another classy wine from Louis Moreau, relatively early-drinking. Drinking window: 2023-2026. Score - 91. (Andy Howard, MW, decanter.com, Oct. 16, 2022)
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0042634
| Burgundy | 91 (DEC) | 750 | $55.00 | 0 |
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Domaine Roblot-Marchand Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits 2022
Domaine Roblot-Marchand Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits 2022AC 0042216 (XD) 13% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $55.00 TASTING NOTE : This wine is sourced from plots situated at 300-400 metres elevation and offers a layered, floral, quite exuberant character. It's taut and incisive, with plum, dark berries, mixed spices, and forest floor. It will drink through the mid-2030s.
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0042216
| Burgundy | | 750 | $55.00 | 0 |
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Drappier Grande Sendrée Brut Champagne 2012
Drappier Grande Sendrée Brut Champagne 2012AC 0955633 (D) 12% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $167.00 TASTING NOTE : In 2012, severe weather conditions posed significant challenges for the Drappier family; hail impacted almost 70% of their village, and frost hit 20% of the La Grande Sendrée plot. This resulted in a limited yield of the 2012 Brut Grande Sendrée, which has a delicate, deep bouquet with aromas of pear, peach, orchard fruit, baked bread and spices. Medium to full-bodied, dense and concentrated, it's a layered and structured, tension-filled but ethereal Champagne with racy acidity. Although already thoroughly enjoyable, it should age well over the next 10 years. This is a blend of 55% Pinot Noir and 45% Chardonnay, disgorged with 4.9 grams per liter dosage. Drink date: 2023-2040. Score - 95. (Yohan Castaing, robertparker.com, Nov. 16, 2023)
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0955633
| Champagne | 95 (RP) | 750 | $167.00 | 0 |
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Gustave Lorentz Altenberg de Bergheim Vieilles Vignes Riesling 2019
Gustave Lorentz Altenberg de Bergheim Vieilles Vignes Riesling 2019AC Alsace Grand Cru 0031089 (M) 14% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $68.00 TASTING NOTE : The Altenbourg de Bergheim Grand Cru sits in the middle of the Ribeauvillé fault zone, one of the most complex geological assemblies in wine-growing France, and you'll find marly limestones as well as pink sandstones underlying the vineyard. Still more relevant, though, may be its southern exposure and protected situation: this 220m-320m, 35-ha site is celebrated for its generosity. Pale gold in colour, this Riesling has classic aromas of apples and pears, lemon oil and cardamom. On the palate, it's deep, intense, splendidly fruited and with a 'mineral' spangle to the flavours, too; just a little sweetness brocades those fruits. It's long in the mouth and almost statuesque: a striking contrast to the more slender and piercing Rieslings produced a little further north up the Rhine, away from the generously motherly Vosges foothills. Best in Show. Score - 97. (Decanter World Wine Awards, 2023)
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0031089
| Alsace | 97 (DWWA) | 750 | $68.00 | 0 |
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Jean-Marc et Romain Pastou Sancerre 2023
Jean-Marc et Romain Pastou Sancerre 2023AC 0037941 (XD) 13% Alc./Vol. 750 mL $44.00 TASTING NOTE : This wine comes from 20-year-old vines in a south-facing vineyard. It has aromatic herbs, citrus, and white fruit tones, with a sharply defined flinty mineral note. Drink by 2028.
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0037941
| Loire | | 750 | $44.00 | 0 |
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