| 16111 | 16110 | France | 94–96. Barrel sample. Big and ripe, this is a powerful wine with 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, giving the wine a solid, dusty structure but also delicious fruit. Finishes with a touch of chocolate at the end. | Barrel Sample | 95 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Estèphe | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Calon Ségur 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Estèphe) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Calon Ségur |
| 16112 | 16111 | France | 94–96. Barrel sample. Big and rich with lots of chocolate and ripe black-plum fruits, this is a very structured wine, showing some extraction but also spice and sweet tannins. Powerful, but with a finish that is like a cool breeze. | Barrel Sample | 95 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Estèphe | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Cos d'Estournel 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Estèphe) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Cos d'Estournel |
| 16113 | 16112 | France | 94–96. Barrel sample. This is a glamorous wine with acidity and structure surrounded by a ripe fruit character. The palate is powerful, and already quite complex, with both great fruitiness and a solid feel. | Barrel Sample | 95 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Julien | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Ducru Beaucaillou 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Julien) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Ducru Beaucaillou |
| 16114 | 16113 | France | 94–96. Barrel sample. This is a big, powerful, fruity wine that has restraint from its dense tannins. It's foursquare, chunky in character, already balanced, the tannins merging with the acidity. There is great aging potential. | Barrel Sample | 95 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Estèphe | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Montrose 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Estèphe) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Montrose |
| 16115 | 16114 | France | 94–96. Barrel sample. Firmly tannic in character, this wine is dry and extracted. There's potential for this powerful, impressive wine to bear the wine's very dry character with the weight of its fruit. | Barrel Sample | 95 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Julien | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Léoville Barton 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Julien) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Léoville Barton |
| 16116 | 16115 | France | 94–96. Barrel sample. Intense black currant fruitiness makes this wine unabashedly forward. The palate bears weighty tannins behind that fruit, resulting in a wine that is already quite balanced and structured. | Barrel Sample | 95 | | Bordeaux | Pauillac | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 2012 Barrel Sample (Pauillac) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande |
| 16117 | 16116 | France | 94–96. Barrel sample. This very ripe, full-bodied wine is powered by sweet blackberries and solid tannins. It is a full, concentrated and complex wine that has a great future. | Barrel Sample | 95 | 150 | Bordeaux | Saint-Julien | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Léoville Poyferré 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Julien) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Léoville Poyferré |
| 16118 | 16117 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. While fully ripe on the palate, this wine also boasts acidity and a black-currant freshness. It shows the quality of Cabernet from Pauillac in 2012. | Barrel Sample | 94 | | Bordeaux | Pauillac | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Clerc Milon 2012 Barrel Sample (Pauillac) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Clerc Milon |
| 16119 | 16118 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. Concentration is the name of the game with this dark and intense wine. It has power and a structure that is finely tannic and dusty, with bright fruits suspended within. The aftertaste shows fine, bright acidity. | Barrel Sample | 94 | | Bordeaux | Pauillac | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Haut Bages Libéral 2012 Barrel Sample (Pauillac) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Haut Bages Libéral |
| 16120 | 16119 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. Already a beautiful wine, this is showing fine, sweet fruits along with a solid structure. The palate is juicy and fruity with new wood flavors showing through. The aftertaste is full of the fresh aspect of the vintage. | Barrel Sample | 94 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Julien | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Lagrange 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Julien) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Lagrange |
| 16121 | 16120 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. Comprised of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, this is a densely ripe wine, full of black fruits, smoky wood and generous tannins. Given its structure, the wine will obviously age well, even if it is drinkable in the medium term. | Barrel Sample | 94 | | Bordeaux | Pauillac | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Pichon Longueville 2012 Barrel Sample (Pauillac) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Pichon Longueville |
| 16122 | 16121 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. This is a solid effort that showcases both great blackberry fruit and sweet tannins right at the forefront. There is also fine acidity and a layer of wood that gives a dry, firm, age-worthy aftertaste. | Barrel Sample | 94 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Julien | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Saint-Pierre 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Julien) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Saint-Pierre |
| 16123 | 16122 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. Full of ripe Cabernet tannins, this is a structured wine that's chunky in character. It elegantly balances fruit and structure, resulting in a wine that's sure to be impressive. | Barrel Sample | 94 | 100 | Bordeaux | Saint-Julien | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Branaire-Ducru 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Julien) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Branaire-Ducru |
| 16124 | 16123 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. This powerful wine is dense with rich tannins and black fruits that are balanced. Full and concentrated, it's a wine with great potential. | Barrel Sample | 94 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Estèphe | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Ormes de Pez 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Estèphe) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Ormes de Pez |
| 16125 | 16124 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. This is a smooth, rich wine that's intensely concentrated and packed with great black-currant fruits. The wine has weight and a sense of structure to support the great fruitiness. | Barrel Sample | 94 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Julien | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Beychevelle 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Julien) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Beychevelle |
| 16126 | 16125 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. This finely fruity wine is packed with black fruits accented by spice and wood flavors. Solid tannins and bright layers of acidity make this wine so typical of the vintage. | Barrel Sample | 94 | | Bordeaux | Pauillac | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Croizet-Bages 2012 Barrel Sample (Pauillac) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Croizet-Bages |
| 16127 | 16126 | France | 93–95. Barrel sample. The wine is very dry, layered tannins giving a major sense of structure. It will always have this dry, dense character, very firm, solid and powerful. | Barrel Sample | 94 | | Bordeaux | Pauillac | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château Lynch-Bages 2012 Barrel Sample (Pauillac) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château Lynch-Bages |
| 16128 | 16127 | France | 92–94. Barrel sample. Fruity and spicy, this is a fine, attractively fruity wine. While it doesn't have great weight, it has a core of dry tannins and a dark structure that suggests good aging for the future. | Barrel Sample | 93 | | Bordeaux | Saint-Estèphe | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Château de Pez 2012 Barrel Sample (Saint-Estèphe) | Bordeaux-style Red Blend | Château de Pez |
| 16129 | 16128 | US | A Rhône-style blend that includes Viognier, Grenache and Mourvèdre, this is a standout. It's tight, focused and pure, bearing penetrating flavors of cassis and boysenberry, with streaks of coffee liqueur and chocolate, and a deep, resonant finish marked with fine-grained tannins. | | 93 | 24 | Washington | Columbia Valley (WA) | Columbia Valley | Paul Gregutt | @paulgwine | Tulpen 2008 Syrah (Columbia Valley (WA)) | Syrah | Tulpen |
| 16130 | 16129 | US | A beautiful wine, this is rich in citrus, tropical fruit and green apple flavors, with a smoky jacket of oak. The acids and tannins lift it above the ordinary, as does a stony minerality that tastes of the soil. | Corral Vineyard | 93 | 48 | California | Green Valley | Sonoma | | | Iron Horse 2010 Corral Vineyard Chardonnay (Green Valley) | Chardonnay | Iron Horse |
| 16131 | 16130 | Italy | Pora Barbaresco offers an incredibly elegant and fine personality with beautiful accents of wild berry, dried ginger, cola, leather, spice and black licorice. The tannins are silky and very polished. | Pora | 93 | 46 | Piedmont | Barbaresco | | | | Musso 2009 Pora (Barbaresco) | Nebbiolo | Musso |
| 16132 | 16131 | US | Nickel & Nickel brings its deft touch for Napa Valley Bordeaux varieties to Russian River Syrah, with compelling results. The wine is extraordinarily rich and refined, carrying waves of blackberry, cherry, dark chocolate, bacon, smoky cedar and spice flavors. The texture is gloriously fine in tannins. A really superior Syrah that should provide pleasure over the next four years. | Darien Vineyard | 93 | 50 | California | Russian River Valley | Sonoma | | | Nickel & Nickel 2009 Darien Vineyard Syrah (Russian River Valley) | Syrah | Nickel & Nickel |
| 16133 | 16132 | US | This is remarkable, with modest alcohol and a concentrated, ageworthy structure. Lime and pineapple flavors are enhanced with lively, gin-like botanicals. There is vivid acidity and a lick of butterscotch on the finish. | Unfiltered | 93 | 35 | Washington | Columbia Valley (WA) | Columbia Valley | Paul Gregutt | @paulgwine | Boudreaux Cellars 2010 Unfiltered Chardonnay (Columbia Valley (WA)) | Chardonnay | Boudreaux Cellars |
| 16134 | 16133 | France | The idea that Sauvignon Blanc cannot age is emphatically disproved by this impressive, mature wine. It is rich and concentrated, full of almonds, herbs and a great sense of length and ripeness. This is now perfectly ready to drink. | Le Grand Rochoy | 93 | 45 | Loire Valley | Sancerre | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Domaine Laporte 2006 Le Grand Rochoy (Sancerre) | Sauvignon Blanc | Domaine Laporte |
| 16135 | 16134 | Italy | This is beautiful with fragrant tones of rose petal, wild berry, lemon zest, ginger and sage. Its complexity is impressive and so is the mouthfeel's polished and fine nature. Age this wine 10 years or more. | | 93 | 50 | Piedmont | Barolo | | | | Gianni Gagliardo 2008 Barolo | Nebbiolo | Gianni Gagliardo |
| 16136 | 16135 | US | This is a unique and quirky blend, but so seductive. Half Sangiovese and half Cabernet Franc, it strikes an Italian pose, with scents and flavors of tobacco and sour cherry backed with lip-smacking acidity. The Cabernet Franc lends prune, plum and coffee notes. | JBO's Frangiovese | 93 | 60 | Washington | Washington | Washington Other | Paul Gregutt | @paulgwine | Boudreaux Cellars 2008 JBO's Frangiovese Red (Washington) | Red Blend | Boudreaux Cellars |
| 16137 | 16136 | France | Maturing well, this is a rich Champagne. Its fruit flavors have gained a golden glow of toast and almond flavors, while retaining a taut, textured acidity. Ready to drink now. | Cuvée Guy Joly Mémory Brut | 93 | 120 | Champagne | Champagne | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Veuve Doussot 2002 Cuvée Guy Joly Mémory Brut (Champagne) | Champagne Blend | Veuve Doussot |
| 16138 | 16137 | France | This is a taut, tight, dry Champagne, needing a few more years of bottle age. It has fine acidity, with a crisp lemon flavor and a lively mousse. With further maturity, it will develop into an intense, toasty Champagne of great quality. | Cuvée L | 93 | 140 | Champagne | Champagne | | Roger Voss | @vossroger | Veuve Doussot NV Cuvée L (Champagne) | Champagne Blend | Veuve Doussot |
| 16139 | 16138 | US | This is a beautiful Chardonnay—dry, sleek and refined. Beyond the subtle tropical fruit, citrus and green apple flavors is a steely minerality and lemony acidity that get the mouth watering. Drink now. | Rued Clone | 93 | 48 | California | Green Valley | Sonoma | | | Iron Horse 2010 Rued Clone Chardonnay (Green Valley) | Chardonnay | Iron Horse |
| 16140 | 16139 | US | The brisk acidity and tough tannins suggest cellaring this Pinot Noir for a while. To judge by the core of cherries and red currants, it should ride out the years effortlessly. Beyond the fruit is a fine, mushroomy earthiness and a feral quality sometimes found in better Sonoma Coast Pinots. Give it until 2017. | Precioso | 93 | 75 | California | Sonoma Coast | Sonoma | | | Keller 2009 Precioso Pinot Noir (Sonoma Coast) | Pinot Noir | Keller |