Catalog
These Tasting Offers from the catalog Spring-Summer 2026 are designed to help you discover a producer, a vintage, a new cuvée or a particular success story, at a discounted price.
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In 2008, Denis Durantou fell head over heels for this splendid 12-hectare clay-limestone vineyard, which he purchased the very next year. Located at the top of a hill on the first tier of the Dordogne hillside, Montlandrie is to Castillon (which it directly overlooks) what Ausone is to Saint-Émilion.
As with the family’s other estates (L’Église-Clinet, Les Cruzelles, La Chenade...), Noëmie Durantou applies all her expertise and perfectionism to produce a fresh, floral wine with crisp, juicy fruit: plot-by-plot vinification, low-temperature fermentation, gentle hand-pumping over...
Few Bordeaux wines deserve the description “vibrant wine” as much as Montlandrie.
The 2017 vintage in the press:
J-M Quarin (October 2020): 91/100 “Very aromatic nose, with ripe, deep fruit. Delicate on the attack, suave in development, with a superb mouthfeel and plenty of brightness in the flavor, the wine finishes long, savory, on a fine grain.”
Vinous (N. Martin-February 2020): 91/100 “The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, very silky in texture with hints of Indian and brown spices towards the elegant finish. Approachable in style, drink this over the next decade.”
More- To keep or to drink:
- Ready to drink
- Apogée:
- 2022-2032
- Alcohol degree:
- 14.5%
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With remarkable consistency, Potensac has been one of the most regular crus bourgeois in the northern Médoc for 30 years, proof of the know-how of the Léoville-Las Cases team (same owner). Its ability to age is always surprising, even and especially in the "early years".
The 2022 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (December 2025): 93/100 "Jean-Hubert Delon and his teams have always taken great care of this vineyard located just north of Saint-Estèphe, on a beautiful clay-gravel hilltop. Benefiting from an old vineyard, it produces wines with remarkable longevity, even if they are not lacking in appeal in their youth. The 2022 is set for a long life."
Vinous (A. Galloni - January 2025): 93/100 "The 2022 Potensac is a pretty rich, heady Haut-Médoc. Blue/purplish fruit, spice, new leather, menthol and sage fill out the layers nicely. The 2022 offers a combination of fruit depth and vibrancy that is hugely appealing. This opens beautifully with a bit coaxing."
J-M Quarin (February 2025): 92/100 "For me, who doesn't reread my Primeur notes before discovering the wines in bottle, this tasting was gripping with pleasure. I rediscovered the Potensac of thirty years ago. This one reminds me of the 1982. Dark, intense, lively colour. Very aromatic nose, with ripe fruit. Hints of crème de cassis and cedar. Smooth on the entry, aromatic in the middle, with an unprecedented class in the touch, the wine gains depth in the last third of the palate. It finishes very long and flavoursome, with fine, meticulous tannins. Well done!"
Bettane + Desseauve (Guide 2026) : 93/100
More- To keep or to drink:
- Wait 1 to 2 years
- Apogée:
- 2028-2038
- Alcohol degree:
- 14.5%
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Since 2006, Cantenac-Brown has returned to the forefront of the Margaux scene with wines that are fuller-bodied and deeper than most of its neighbors. A direct competitor of Giscours. "The rising star of Margaux," according to the Revue du Vin de France! The arrival of the new owners in 2019 (Le Lous family) marks a new qualitative progression, with the acquisition of 10 additional hectares and the complete renovation of the winery.
The 2021 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 95/100 “The 2021 is very successful here, with a graceful wine, with delicate, velvety tannins. It nevertheless has a lovely spring in the mouth, with clean, intense, flavorful fruit. A promising ensemble."
Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2023): 94/100 “The 2021 Cantenac Brown is superb. Rich and flashy, with tons of persistence, the 2021 is a new wine of notable depth. Black cherry, plum, spice, new leather and mocha are all amplified. Readers will find a Cantenac Brown endewod with notable textural richness. Estate Manager Jose Sanfins opted to bleed the musts, and that resulted in an unusually opulent wine for the year-very much in line with the house style. The 2021 is drop-dead gorgeous”.
Bettane + Desseauve (Guide 2026) : 93/100
More- To keep or to drink:
- Wait 1 to 2 years
- Apogée:
- 2027-2038
- Alcohol degree:
- 13.5%
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Second wine of Pichon-Comtesse de Lalande: velvety, generous, with well-polished tannins and aromas of ripe fruit with a very Pauillaise cedar note. A reliable and regular value, quickly developed.
The 2023 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2027) : 92/100 “Réserve is gaining in strength and rising to the level of a minor cru classé, such is the depth and complexity this wine displays.”
Vinous (A. Galloni – March 2026): 93/100 “The 2023 Réserve de la Comtesse is superb. In some recent vintages, I have felt the Réserve was a bit too serious for a second wine. That is not at all the case with the 2023, a wine of sublime elegance and finesse. Floral top notes meld into a core of dark red/purplish fruit, pomegranate, blood orange and cinnamon. This is the Réserve with the highest amount of Cabernet Sauvignon ever.”
J-M Quarin (March 2026): 92/100 "Dark, intense, purple colour. Very aromatic nose, with ripe fruit, evolving purely, subtly and with vanilla notes when swirled in the glass, indistinguishable from a Margaux wine. Delicate on the palate, juicy in the middle, with a beautiful texture, the wine melts on the palate. It finishes with a fine, burst of fruit. It's very good."
Vinous (N. Martin - February 2026): 91/100 "The 2023 Pichon Comtesse Réserve has a fragrant bouquet with buoyant red berry fruit, rose petals and iris flower scents that blossom in the glass. Fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannins, a pleasing salinity and especially spiciness that develops in the mouth, leading to a bright white pepper- and clove-tinged finish. It will just require a couple of years in bottle"
Bettane et Desseauve (Guide 2027) : 92/100
More- To keep or to drink:
- Wait 1 to 2 years
- Apogée:
- 2027-2035
- Organic certification:
- 2024
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After 43 vintages, Mr Charmolüe sold the estate to Mr Bouygues in 2006. The change of ownership was accompanied by a spectacular project designed to bring Montrose into the 21st century: use of geothermal energy, installation of photovoltaic panels, recycling of CO2 from alcoholic fermentation...
There has also been a change of style in the wines, with a move towards greater aromatic complexity and textural refinement. Montrose nevertheless remains a wine of great breed, resting on a powerful tannic architecture and reserved for the most patient connoisseurs.The 2021 vintage is featured in the Tasting Offer in the centre pages.
The 2021 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 96/100 “To its usual breed and depth, Montrose 2021 adds a hint of brilliance and great distinction in its tannins. A powerful wine indeed, but terribly civilized.”
Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2023): 96+/100 “The 2021 Montrose is an inward, brooding wine-classic Montrose, in other words, just attenuated in its intensity by the cool growing season. Spice, tobacco, cedar, menthol, scorched earth, gravel andtouch of new oak open over time, but the 2021 is really a wine that requires considerable cellaring to reach its potential. Then again it is Montrose. Elegance meets power here.”
J-M Quarin (April 2022): 96/100 “Minutious on the entry, very aromatic and complex in the middle, the wine grows on the finish, very fresh, very tasty, more floral than usual and yet profound. Great persistence with refined tannicity and more perfumed than usual at this age.”
Bettane + Desseauve (Guide 2026) : 95/100
More- To keep or to drink:
- Wait 5 to 10 years
- Apogée:
- 2032-2045
- Alcohol degree:
- 13%
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Cyprien Arlaud has awakened this beautiful family estate of 15 hectares between Gevrey, Morey and Chambolle. Its wines, biodynamic since 2010, complete and delicious, have a frankness, a voluptuousness of texture and a rare aromatic elegance. The most recent vintages attest to remarkable progress, this domain clearly aims for excellence. Awarded three stars in the 2027 guide of La Revue du Vin de France.
The 2021 vintage in the press:
Vinous (N. Martin - November 2022): 94-96/100 "The 2021 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru is a little more "gourmand" on the nose, cohering with time in the glass, loamy, almost peaty aromas emerge with time. The palate is medium-bodied with finely-honed tannins. Lovely symmetry here, with a slight creaminess in texture towards the finish, where it feels very persistent. This is a lovely Charmes-Chambertin that should evolve wonderfully in bottle."
More- To keep or to drink:
- Wait 3 to 5 years
- Apogée:
- 2030-2044
- Organic certification:
- 2010
- Alcohol degree:
- 13%
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With 10 ha in the combe of Pernand-Vergelesses, Domaine Pavelot present the best facet of Burgundy: organic viticulture thought out in the respect of the viticultural tradition (manual harvest in wicker baskets, natural yeasts, vinification 30% to 50% in whole bunches, etc. ) with the tools and achievements of today's oenology (sorting on a vibrating table, precise sulphiting of the harvest, pre-fermentation maceration, etc.) and above all, prices that are the opposite of the prevailing speculation. Their whites and reds are models of style, balance and aromatic purity.
La Revue du Vin de France rightly praises the work Luc Pavelot has done with the most recent vintages: “All these wines are intense, fragrant, and boast incredible fruit density. They are pure marvels to cellar, offering exceptional value for money.”
Awarded one star in the Guide de la Revue du Vin de France since 2026.
More- To keep or to drink:
- Wait 1 to 2 years
- Apogée:
- 2028-2038
- Organic certification:
- 2009
- Grape varieties:
- 100% chardonnay