Tour de France

Château d'Yquem 2013 (12 half bottles)

Château Cheval Blanc 2009 (1 double magnum)

Château La Fleur Pétrus 2010 (6 bottles)

Château Léoville Las Cases 2003 (24 half bottles)

Bouchard Père et Fils, Meursault 1er Cru Genevrières 2012 (1 imperial)

Krug Brut Rosé Champagne MV (3 bottles)

Sauternes, Bourdeaux

Saint-Émilion, Bourdeaux

Pomerol, Bordeaux

Saint-Julien, Bordeaux

Cote d'Or, Burgundy

Reims, Champagne

This lot takes you on a rich and flavorful tour of France's finest wines. Beginning with the Château d'Yquem, indulge in this delectable Sauternes. The Wine Advocate notes that "the bouquet is quite honeyed and rich for Yquem, with subtle scents of peach skin, white flowers and a puff of chalk and frangipane."

A 99-point wine, the Château Cheval Blanc 2009 hails from one of four Bordeaux producers in Saint-Émilion to receive the highest rank of Premier Grand Cru Classé. Robert Parker praises the wine for being "opulent and full-bodied, dense, unctuously textured, supersmooth, velvety, pure, profound and impossible to resist." This wine will open beautifully now, but can be stored for many years to come.

Next on your Bordeaux tour, experience the bountiful and exquisitely intense flavors of La Fleur Pétrus, a Château located on the famous Pomerol plateau. This Bordeaux is sure to excite! "Full-bodied, extravagantly luscious, with a skyscraper-like mid palate and phenomenal length," Parker notes.

Your palate will next head to Saint-Julien where you'll enjoy the iconic Château Léoville Las Cases 2003. With 24 half-bottles of this fresh and lively Bordeaux, marvel at the "remarkable nose of black currants, kirsch, and vanilla" as described by The Wine Advocate.

An imperial of great flavor awaits with the Bouchard Père et Fils, Meursault 1er Cru Genevrières 2012. Bask in a nose of "honeysuckle and jasmine at first, orange blossom soon after," according to The Wine Advocate.

What better way to complete this tour-de-France than with three bottlings of Krug Brut Rosé Champagne MV? Toast yourself - after all, you've taken quite the tour!

Generously contributed by Edgar D. Jannotta

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