Vintage Saint Emilion Grand Cru Chateau Quinault L'Enclos and all the Saint Emilion and Pomerol in the store on SALE!!
The Wines of Bordeaux give tone to the stomach, while leaving the mouth fresh and the head clear. More than one invalid abandoned by the doctors has been seen to drink the good old wine of Bordeaux and return to health.
--Comments by members of the Jury judging Bordeaux wines submitted under the new 1855 classification at the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, as noted in 1855: A History of the Bordeaux Classification
Not much has changed in Bordeaux since the 1855 classification on the Left Bank of Bordeaux. If you got into this group of elite chateau you are like a made-man in the mob, your wines will sell every year without effort in great vintages and in off years they will still move in a short time as the reputation of these estates is not just among the local wine lovers of France, they have demand all over the world today.
The wines of St. Emilion were classified in 1955 and today this is one of the only regions of Bordeaux where the chateau have the chance of moving up in terms of status as they can apply to have their status elevated by the AOC based on the last 10 vintages of their wine. This possibility does not exist anywhere else in Bordeaux except in St. Emilion.
This is why you see so many great new wines coming out of this region and a lot of great old wines that have been rejuvenated and are now among the elite wines of Bordeaux and yesterday they were second class citizens. We have been following the wines from Chateau Quinault L’Eclose for a long time now and they have just gone from strength to strength since they were acquired by Bernard Arnault and Albert Freres the co-owners of Chateau Cheval Blanc. Their winemaking team have helped make the wines even better and we have an incredible offer on 10-15 year old wines direct from this great chateau.
Vintage Saint Emilion Grand Cru from the same winemaking team as Cheval Blanc
2012 Chateau Quinault L'Enclos Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $48.00 Your Price: $43.20 Quantity in Stock: 59
(92 Points) This vineyard is a small enclave of vines surrounded by the city of Libourne. Now made by the Cheval Blanc wine team, it shows great style and richness. Attractive tannins and acidity are integrated into the rounded blackberry fruits. It's a wine for medium-term aging, so drink from 2017. — Roger Voss Wine Enthusiast, Issue date 5-1-2015
2014 Chateau Quinault L'Enclos Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $68.00 Your Price: $61.20 Quantity in Stock: 60
(92 Points) The 2014 Quinault L’Enclos has meat and dried blood-infused red fruit on the nose, possibly with some expressive Cabernet Franc in the mix. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly green tannins on the entry that are framed by fresh black fruit. There is fine tension and a sense of energy conveyed by the finish and it should age well. Time to raise my score. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting. (NM) Review Date: 03/2018, Vinous
A bit about Chateau Quinault L’Enclose:
Château Quinault L'Enclos is a tiny walled Château and vineyard within the city of Libourne in what was until 1973 the satellite appellation Sables Saint Émilion. The Château can be dated back to the 17th century and was bought by the negotiant Baptiste Mons in 1930. It is thought that the Château takes its name from a famous writer - Philippe Quinault (1635/1688), who was a very popular Parisian dramatist and librettist at that time.
Quinault wrote the words for opera music composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully (known as librettos). During the reign of Louis XIV this team produced 11 operas, or tragédies lyriques en musique, as they were originally called. These spectacles comprised of a prologue and 5 acts and were enormously successful. They combined chorus, soloists, dancers, sumptuous decors, elaborate special effects, and rich costumes adorned with hundreds of ostrich plumes. You could say that Lully and Quinault were the Rogers and Hammerstein or the Andrew Lloyd Webber of their day.
Part of Quinault's vineyard was lost to the cemetery of the church near by in the 1930s and the vineyard was reduced to a smaller size. The wines are known as a Vins de Garage as though the vineyard may be tiny the wine has achieved somewhat of a cult status. Upon learning that a German real estate company planned to buy the property and construct a housing development, Dr. Alain Raynaud and Françoise Raynaud acquired Château Quinault L'Enclos. Dr. Raynaud, a former physician and a one time president of the Union des Grands Crus is also owner of the Pomerol estates Château la Croix de Gay and La Fleur de Gay and supervises at Château Lascombes.
The vineyard of Château Quinault L'Enclos covers 37 acres and the grapes planted are 65% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Malbec. The vines are 60 – 70 years old as most were planted between 1930 and 1948. The soil is mainly sandy gravel with traces of iron and the micro climate in the vineyard is warmer than its surroundings due to the walled enclosures, the proximity to the town and the River Dordogne. This allows earlier maturation of the grapes and protects them from frost. The vineyard also benefits from Fronsac’s hillock which rises near by which shelters the grapes.
Unfortunately professor Raynaud’s ownership of this property came to a sudden end as he explained that even with great Parker scores, it is just too financially tough to keep a top estate going and to keep on improving the quality year on year. Rumor had it that he bought Quinualt with 100% mortgage, which is not going to make things any easier in bad years, or when there are small yields etc. He was later quoted as saying, 'the banks are right behind you when everything is going well, but when things get tough, it's goodbye good luck. He described the sale as a 'creve-coeur' (ie heartbreaking). He will continue to work with the new owners, as a consultant, and still owns two Pomerol properties, La Fleur du Gay and La Croix du Gay, with his sister.”
Chateau Quinualt L'Enclos was been sold to Bernard Arnault and Albert Freres, co-owners of Chateaux Cheval Blanc, Yquem and La Tour du Pin. They purchased La Tour du Pin in 2006. If you are a bit disappointed for Dr. Alain and Francoise Raymaud, we agree it is a bit tragic for them as it was their passion and commitment that brought this estate into the limelight in a very short period of time, however we can still expect to see great things from this property as the new owners have proven with the properties that they currently own, they are all about quality.
The Right Bank
The Bordeaux region is one of the most important wine-producing regions in the world, it produces a third of the good quality wine French production. Bordeaux is 57 appellations, more than 9,000 wine-producing châteaux, and 13,000 wine growers. Bordeaux is near the Atlantic coast, in the south west of France. Wine has been grown in Bordeaux for two thousand years. Most probably vines grew there before the arrival of the Roman in 56 before J.C. The poet Ausonius wrote about it, a château still bare his name, the "Château Ausone".
At the beginning of the second millennium the region was under English domination. Hundred of boats loaded with barrels of "Claret" left for England. The "Claret" was a light red wine Englishmen loved, the word is still used to refer to Red Bordeaux. The large diversity of Bordeaux suggests an equal diversity of soil. The climate is generally temperate with a short winter and a high degree of humidity generated by the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean.
The celebrated regions of the right bank, Pomerol and St Emilion, have very little to do with the rest of Bordeaux. They lie well to the east of Bordeaux itself. Where the Médoc and Graves are characterized by gravelly soils, on the right bank the soil has more clay and limestone. Cabernet Sauvignon does not usually perform well here, and Merlot and Cabernet Franc are much more widely planted. A warmer drier climate than the maritime Médoc also benefits the region.
The right bank was mostly excluded from the 1855 classification (the exceptions being the St Emilion first growths of Cheval Blanc and Ausone) and as a whole was not taken that seriously until the early 20th century. Today, due to the garagist movement- the recent development on the Right Bank has been the production of wines from newly created but tiny estates. A policy of very low yields, ageing in new oak barrels, and the rarity value of the wines, has created a somewhat absurd demand for such exceedingly expensive wines as Le Pin (Pomerol) and Valandraud (St Emilion). Their quality is excellent, but they offer poor value, except for wine drinkers who must have 'cult' wines in their cellars at all costs. This is a reflection of the quality of the best wines and of the sensuous properties of the Merlot grape, which gives rounder, more opulent wines than the austere Cabernet Sauvignon. The St Emilion wines have been classified, but Pomerol still has no classification, although the best wines are internationally recognized.
Because the wine business has been so entrenched in their history and the entire economy of this region of France is based on what the English have coined the term “Claret”, they have a system of doing business like other wine producing region on the face of the earth. The best of the Bordeaulaise get paid for their product up to two years before it gets to the market. The top wines are sought out by collectors the world over years before they will come to rest in their cellars; and in some cases many years before they will actually be consumed. It is like the stock market, for wine junkies. Bordeaux Futures are a bet that the wine will be more valuable when it arrives than it was when it was actually purchased.
1960 Clos Fourtet Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $350.00 Sale Price: $295.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1967 Chateau Cheval Blanc Saint-Emilion (mid shoulder)
Price: $475.00 Sale Price: $349.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1981 CHATEAU FIGEAC, SAINT-EMILION GRAND CRU, FRANCE
Price: $400.00 Sale Price: $315.00 Quantity in Stock: 18
1982 Chateau Cheval Blanc St. Emilion, France
Price: $2400.00 Sale Price: $1795.00 Quantity in Stock: 8
1990 Chateau Figeac, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, France
Price: $495.00 Your Price: $445.50 Quantity in Stock: 4
1990 Chateau Cheval Blanc St. Emilion, France
Price: $2750.00 Sale Price: $2250.00 Quantity in Stock: 6
1995 Chateau de Valandraud Saint Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $550.00 Your Price: $495.00 Quantity in Stock: 2
1999 Chateau Angelus Saint Emilion
Price: $495.00 Sale Price: $395.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2000 Chateau Figeac Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $540.00 Sale Price: $450.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
2000 Chateau Pavie Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $675.00 Sale Price: $550.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2000 Quinault L'enclos St. Emilion
Price: $105.00 Sale Price: $85.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2000 Chateau Angelus St Emilion
Price: $950.00 Sale Price: $795.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
2001 Chateau Franc Mayne Saint Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $87.00 Your Price: $78.30 Quantity in Stock: 8
2003 Chateau Cheval Blanc St. Emilion, France
Price: $1080.00 Your Price: $972.00 Quantity in Stock: 4
2004 Chateau Gracia Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $142.00 Sale Price: $120.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2005 Chateau Pavie Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $577.00 Sale Price: $490.00 Quantity in Stock: 12
2005 Chateau Bellevue Mondotte Saint Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $625.00 Sale Price: $495.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2005 Chateau La Gaffeliere Saint-Emilion
Price: $235.00 Sale Price: $199.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2005 Chateau Bellevue-Mondotte Saint-Emilion Grand Cru (375ml)
Price: $230.00 Sale Price: $185.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2005 Troplong Mondot St. Emilion
Price: $450.00 Sale Price: $350.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2005 Chateau Cheval Blanc Saint-Emilion
Price: $1425.00 Sale Price: $1200.00 Quantity in Stock: 12
2005 Chateau Pavie St Emilion, France
Price: $695.00 Sale Price: $550.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2005 Troplong Mondot St. Emilion (375ml)
Price: $195.00 Sale Price: $145.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2007 Chateau Vignot Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, France
Price: $53.75 Sale Price: $43.00 Quantity in Stock: 4
2009 Chateau Beau Sejour Becot St Emilion
Price: $225.00 Your Price: $202.50 Quantity in Stock: 5
2009 Chateau Figeac Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $510.00 Sale Price: $425.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2009 Chateau Cheval Blanc, St Emilion, France
Price: $1795.00 Your Price: $1615.50 Quantity in Stock: 3
2012 Chateau Cheval Blanc Saint-Emilion
Price: $750.00 Sale Price: $595.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2012 Chateau Quinault L'Enclos Saint-Emilion
Price: $48.00 Your Price: $43.20 Quantity in Stock: 59
2012 Chateau Cheval Blanc, Saint-Emilion, France
Price: $987.00 Your Price: $888.30 Quantity in Stock: 3
2014 Chateau Cap Saint George Saint Emilion
Price: $33.00 Your Price: $29.70 Quantity in Stock: 1
2014 Chateau Quinault L'Enclos Saint-Emilion
Price: $68.00 Your Price: $61.20 Quantity in Stock: 60
2015 Fait Main Todeschini Asteria Vineyards Saint Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $235.00 Your Price: $211.50 Quantity in Stock: 5
2016 Chateau Simard Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $42.00 Your Price: $37.80 Quantity in Stock: 53
2016 Chateau La Dominique St. Emilion
Price: $90.00 Your Price: $81.00 Quantity in Stock: 12
2019 Chateau Beausejour J.Duffau-Lagarrosse Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $162.00 Sale Price: $137.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2019 Chateau Moulin Saint-Georges Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $63.00 Sale Price: $53.00 Quantity in Stock: 5
2019 Chateau Fombrauge Saint Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $52.00 Your Price: $46.80 Quantity in Stock: 10
2019 Chateau La Grave Figeac Grand Cru Saint Emilion, France
Price: $65.00 Sale Price: $49.00 Quantity in Stock: 4
2019 Chateau Tauzinat L'Hermitage St. Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $37.50 Your Price: $33.75 Quantity in Stock: 2
2020 Chateau La Grave Figeac Grand Cru Saint Emilion, France
Price: $49.00 Your Price: $44.10 Quantity in Stock: 14
2020 Mondot by Chateau Mondot Saint Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $67.50 Your Price: $60.75 Quantity in Stock: 4
2020 Chateau Lassegue Saint Emilion
Price: $75.00 Your Price: $67.50 Quantity in Stock: 3
2021 Chateau Fombrauge St Emilion Grand Cru Classe
Price: $45.00 Your Price: $40.50 Quantity in Stock: 4
Pomerol
The Pomerol vineyards are located on a plateau that rises and falls slightly as it slopes gently down through a series of terraces toward the valley of the Isle River, which flows into the Dordogne River. The appellation is bordered on the north by the Barbanne, a tributary of the Isle, on the east by Saint Emilion (the Cheval Blanc and Figeac wine estates), and on the south and west by the city of Libourne. Pomerol is an area only two and a half miles long and two miles wide with exceptionally favorable geology and unique wine-producing potential. It is one of the smallest of the Bordeaux wine areas and produces a yearly average of about 350,000 cases of wine. Most of the region's properties, with a few exceptions, are small; the 185 wine estates in Pomerol have an average of eight acres of grapes each. The area is mainly characterized by a unique set of geological conditions. The surface soil is gravel, more or less compact or sandy; and its subsoil contains ferrous oxide, locally known as "crasse de fer", which, together with its specific microclimate, gives Pomerol wines their distinctive personality.
It is speculated that wine grapes have been grown there ever since the Romans inhabited Gaul. The development of the vineyards began in the 12th Century and continued throughout the Middle Ages. Pomerol was an important stopping place along the road of the pilgrims journeying from all over Europe to the Spanish pilgrimage of Saint Jacques de Compostelle. The Knights of Malta built a manor and a Roman church - since destroyed - as well as a hospital. The ancient hospital is the present Château Gazin building; it may be one of the last vestiges of the middle ages in Pomerol. Unfortunately, the troubles of the Hundred Years' War led to the abandonment of most of the vineyards. Subsequently restored, they again suffered greatly during the Religious Wars. Minutes in the archives of Libourne date the beginning of Pomerol's evolution toward its modern form to the middle of the 18th Century. It began in 1753 when Louis Leonard Fontemoing, a grape-grower in a locality called "Trop Chaud" ("Too Hot"), transformed his vineyard by taking out the white grapes and putting in red grapes. Besides the Pressac red, bouchet (or cabernet franc) and merlot made their first historically recorded appearance. They are the dominant varieties in Pomerol today.
Some historians claim that the real ascendancy of Pomerol began in the second half of the 19th Century. However, modern tasters have reported on many great Pomerol vintages (dating back to the 1920's) from the region's pre-eminent estate, Château Pétrus. Nevertheless, pre-war vintages of Pomerol were not much in demand; and most winelovers of that era did not seek out Château Pétrus or any other of the notable Pomerol properties. It was not until the legendary 1947 vintage that Pétrus gained notoriety in wine circles. Although we have not tasted that particular vintage, those experienced tasters who have had the privilege of sampling the 1947 Pétrus at its zenith (it may still be at that level today) claim that the 1947 Pétrus is one of the greatest wines produced in the 20th Century. Despite the fame of the 1947 vintage, another generation of winedrinkers generally ignored the wines of Pomerol. We recall drinking exceptional Pomerols from vintages in the 1960's that commanded prices well below their counterparts in the Médoc (the area of Bordeaux where fabled estates such as Mouton, Lafite, Latour, and Margaux are located). However, beginning in the 1980's - specifically the 1982 vintage - Pomerol began to command average prices that exceeded those of most other Bordeaux wines. Today older vintages of Pétrus from the 1960's go for as much as $1000 to $10,000 a bottle!
All the Pomerol in the store on SALE!!
1961 Chateau Petrus Pomerol (High Shoulder Fill)
Price: $8950.00 Your Price: $8055.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1983 Chateau Lafleur Pomerol (torn labels)
Price: $1700.00 Sale Price: $1355.00 Quantity in Stock: 2
1985 Chateau Trotanoy Pomerol
Price: $450.00 Your Price: $405.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1989 Chateau Petrus Pomerol
Price: $7500.00 Sale Price: $5900.00 Quantity in Stock: 11
1996 Chateau Gazin Pomerol, France
Price: $235.00 Your Price: $211.50 Quantity in Stock: 11
2005 CHATEAU L'EGLISE CLINET POMEROL
Price: $595.00 Sale Price: $495.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2008 Chateau Le Gay Pomerol
Price: $189.00 Sale Price: $158.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2008 Chateau L'Evangile Pomerol
Price: $248.00 Sale Price: $210.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2008 Chateau La Conseillante Pomerol
Price: $242.00 Sale Price: $205.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2009 Chateau Petrus Pomerol
Price: $7900.00 Your Price: $7110.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
2010 Chateau Petrus Pomerol
Price: $7900.00 Your Price: $7110.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
2011 Chateau Latour a Pomerol Pomerol
Price: $156.00 Sale Price: $132.00 Quantity in Stock: 2
2013 Petrus, Pomerol, France Magnum
Price: $9995.00 Sale Price: $6900.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2015 Clos L'Eglise Pomerol
Price: $177.00 Sale Price: $150.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2016 Chateau Chantalouette Pomerol
Price: $39.00 Your Price: $35.10 Quantity in Stock: 7
2016 Chateau Gazin Pomerol
Price: $172.50 Your Price: $155.25 Quantity in Stock: 4
2018 Chateau La Gravette de Certan Pomerol
Price: $120.00 Your Price: $108.00 Quantity in Stock: 10
2018 Château Rouget Pomerol
Price: $87.00 Your Price: $78.30 Quantity in Stock: 9
2019 Chateau Latour a Pomerol Pomerol
Price: $145.00 Your Price: $130.50 Quantity in Stock: 12
2019 Chateau Vieux Château Certan Pomerol
Price: $504.25 Your Price: $453.83 Quantity in Stock: 4
2020 Chateau Plince Pomerol
Price: $65.00 Your Price: $58.50 Quantity in Stock: 6
2020 Chateau Mazeyres Pomerol
Price: $70.00 Sale Price: $59.00 Quantity in Stock: 2
2020 Chateau Maillet Pomerol
Price: $69.00 Your Price: $62.10 Quantity in Stock: 9
2020 Chateau Latour a Pomerol, Pomerol, France
Price: $145.00 Your Price: $130.50 Quantity in Stock: 12
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