97 POINT Vin d’Garage STUNNER! Château Gracia is the collectible and crave-able Bordeaux BEAUTY you’ve been seeking! The 2018 is already singing — especially at our JAW-DROPPING 55% off!!! Let’s GOOOO!!! 

Château Gracia!!! Did you score this when we first offered it, or were you wallowing in the pitiable state that is DRY JANUARY? Let’s never speak of this again, deal? But for heaven’s sake…don’t you dare miss this TWICE! Château Gracia, good people! One of the very first “GARAGISTE” wines of Bordeaux’s Right Bank that forever shifted the balance of power in the Bordeaux Class system…and despite the absolute CULT status of this wine — we scored some of this 97 POINT BEAUTY for an utterly CRAY-CRAY price! To have ANY of this is a miracle — but at a full $96 OFF??? Très incroyable!!!

Remember Michel Gracia? A Saint-Émilion contractor and stone mason, who’s lain stone at properties like Angelus, Cheval Blanc, and Petrus…and now makes wines that rivals (and some say surpasses) them all! In 1994, after encouragement from Jean Luc Thunevin (ahem…another garagiste who launched all this craziness with Château Valandraud back in the early 90s) alongside his pal, Alain Vauthier of Ausone – Michel purchased just under 4 acres of prime vineyard next to Troplong Mondot. The rest, as they say, is history.

Savvy Bordeaux collectors and wine lovers are known to sneak these in on the regular with FIRST GROWTH Châteaus in blind tastings — and then revel in the absolute PANDEMONIUM that erupts when these come out on top. The pricing is simply breathtaking — UNDER $80 for this is like finding out you’re actually the only son and heir to an eccentric billionaire with royal blood, who’s set to become the next King of Monaco. CaaaCHING!!! 

The 2018 is just breaking that Bordeaux barrier and stepping into its “let’s turn some heads” phase — and goodness gracious Greta Garbo — this is now worthy of the silver screen! Silky and smooth aromas of kirsch, and crème de cassis, with brooding elements of roasted fennel, and fresh-poured asphalt, then baked plum tarts, and black cherry compote, with salty, savory roast beef, and flecks of iron and graphite, with this strong and heady finish of crushed violets, and dried rose, and a faint, sweet whisper of English toffee. Just like the 2016 we offered a ways back — this is full-bodied, full-throttle Right Bank righteousness — and you won’t find it anywhere else at anywhere near this EPIC price!

97 POINTS and as cult-y collectible as EVER!!! While it lasts!