Incredible old champagne from a legendary vintage, showing aromas and flavors of dried apples and pineapple with balsamic undertones and sweet croissants. It's full-bodied with caramel, salted butter and pie crust as well...

Medium to deep garnet-brick colored, 1996 Phelan Segur delivers classic, serious claret scents of cigar box, pencil lead, and dried Provence herbs, over a core of prunes and dried cherries. The medium-bodied palate has...

Spicy, meaty aromas are accented by a cool menthol streak. Toasty blackberrry fruit and bakery spices like anise and cinnamon play together happily on the palate. This is a classy blend, with coffee and a welcome herbal...

It's hard to imagine how a wine of this power can sustain perfect balance. What is now a more nonchalant intensity in the aroma was, in fact, too much to handle when we tasted this last year, as if the wine had no time...