20908 Roscoe Blvd • Canoga Park CA 91304 Hours: Mon - Sat • 9AM - 6PM Phone: (818) 341-1234 • Fax: (818) 341-9232 Outside California: (800) 4-FINE-WINE We are happy to talk to you on the phone or via email regarding your wine selection. Cheers! from the Duke of Bourbon We are extremely excited to offer futures on the intriguing wines of the one-of-a-kind 2003 vintage from Bordeaux. While not having reached the lofty heights of the acclaimed 2000 vintage, the 2003 vintage has produced many excellent wines that will tend to be accessible early in their lives. Both Robert Parker and the Wine Spectator are high on many of the wines from this vintage. We at the Duke are carefully choosing the wines we are offering from the 2003 vintage in an effort to bring you the best of the best, the highest quality and the most reasonably priced wines available. The scores listed are ranges, as Parker and the Spectator tend to do this when rating barrel samples. Keep in mind that the finished wines often score higher. Here is the first of several offerings. Read on and find the ones you like. The wines will be available in the Spring of 2006. One hundred percent deposit is required. Chateau Charmail - Haut Medoc (RP 88-91) 6-Pack $114.00 Case $222.00 This one is a favorite here at the Duke. Always a delicious and fairly priced wine, Robert Parker enjoyed it and said, "A blend of 48% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot, the impeccably made 2003 achieved 13.5% natural alcohol . . . The wine is fleshy, opulently textured, medium to full-bodied, and pure." [Emphasis added] Chateau du Tertre - Margaux (RP 90-92) 6-Pack $175.00 Case $340.00 Robert Parker: "A beautifully made Margaux, the 2003 du Tertre is a credit to proprietor Eric Albada Jelgensma (also responsible for the resurrection of Giscours). A deep ruby/purple color accompanies the chocolatey, berry, smoke, new oak, and plum-scented bouquet. Fleshy, layered, medium-bodied, and seductive, this is undeniably a sleeper of the vintage." Chateau Fonbadet - Pauillac (WS 89-91) 6-Pack $120.00 Case $234.00 Wine Spectator: "This shows intense amounts of blackberry, tobacco and smoke. Full-bodied and very velvety, with a long, caressing finish. A beauty. Best wine I have tasted from here in ages. - J. S." [James Suckling] Also tasted by an emissary of the Duke who reports, ". . . this wine is a big-time winner and should be a 90-92 wine." Goulee - Medoc (RP 87-89) 6-Pack $165.00 Case $323.00 Robert Parker: "Deep ruby/purple-colored with classic aromas of cassis, licorice, underbrush, and spice box, it reveals classified growth quality along with supple tannin, and a forward, fleshy mouthfeel. This is the type of wine Bordeaux producers should be making more frequently, but the price must be realistic given the world-wide competition. This is a new concept from Michel Reydier and Jean-Guillaume Prats, respectively the owner and winemaker of Cos d'Estournel. Isolating some good properties and attempting to create a high quality, branded wine from the Medoc, this stylish blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Merlot is impressive." [Emphasis added] Chateau Mont Perat - Cotes de Bordeaux (RP 89-91) 6-Pack $88.00 Case $172.00 Robert Parker: "One of the most admirable operations in Bordeaux is that of the Despagne family, which produces extraordinary wines from such humble appellations as Bordeaux Superieur and Premieres Cotes de Bordeaux. The beautifully made 2003 Mont Perat is a big fruit bomb offering abundant quantities of black currant fruit inter-mixed with hints of flowers, espresso roast and toasty oak." [Emphasis added] Call and order yours today!! Don't delay! Gems like these sell quickly. Think of fine wine! Think of the Duke! Home Vine-Line Join Our Mailing List Duke's Rarities Email Specials Currently Available Wine Futures Duke's Gift Catalog Recent Arrivals Big Bottle Bonanza Email the Duke Wine Association Events Duke's Wine Library Vine-Line Back Issues Map to the Duke Terminal 55 Wine Storage Lockers We are Happy to Deliver or Ship! Just Call (818) 341-1234 or outside California (800) 4-FINE-WINE Store Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM - 6PM Pacific Time Web Page Production by Fuji Publishing Group. This URL is http://fujipub.com/dukeofbourbon/es040526a.html Copyright © 1995 - 2012 Duke of Bourbon Produced by Fuji Publishing Group. All rights reserved.