The best alternatives for wines such as Pétrus, Mouton Rothschild and Sassicaia

Pétrus

Pomerol • Bordeaux • France

Complex • Full bodied • Mineral • Tannic

€ 3.640

Vivino Average

I am often asked what my favorite wine is. What honestly pops into my mind is Château Pétrus. I am sometimes embarrassed to say because the price of the wine is so high.

James Suckling

Mouton Rothschild

Pauillac • Bordeaux • France

Complex • Intense • Tannic • Finesse

€ 700

Vivino Average

Mouton Rothschild is one of the First Great Growths of Bordeaux Grand Crus, alongside Latour, Haut Brion, Margaux and Lafite-Rothschild

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Sassicaia

Bolgheri • Tuscany • Italy

Jammy • Mineral • Nutty • Ripe

€ 175

Vivino Average

Everything is in the right place in this magical Sassicaia. This is one for the ages. In a word: Awesome.

Antonio Galloni - Vinous

Château Margaux

Margaux • Bordeaux • France

Complex • Elegant • Mineral • Finesse

€ 850

Vivino Average

Thre couldn't be a better Bordeaux bottle.

Thomas Jefferson

Raveneau - Forets

Chablis Premier Cru • Burgundy • France

Elegant • Freshness • Restraint • Mineral

€ 170

Vivino Average

Domaine Raveneau is Chablis's finest producer.

BBR - Berry Bro's & Rudd

Masseto

Bolgheri • Tuscany • Italy

Full bodied • Jammy • Intense • Nutty

€ 600

Vivino Average

From Italy's most celebrated 7-hectare plot of Merlot.

Monica Larner - Wine Advocate

Gaja

Barbaresco • Piedmont • Italy

Complex • Restraint • Full bodied • Tannic

€ 160

Vivino Average

The most recognized name in Barbaresco is clearly Gaja.

Tom Hyland - Wine-Searcher

Lucien Le Moine

Clos Vougeot • Burgundy • France

Restraint • Mineral • Rich • Finesse

€ 240

Vivino Average

An extraordinary micro negociant in Beaune. Very serious quality.

Jancis Robinson MW

Pingus

Ribera del Duero • Spain

Complex • Intense • Nutty • Ripe

€ 825

Vivino Average

With Pingus, Sisseck had created a legendary and very profitable wine.

Decanter

Catena Zapata - Argentino

Mendoza • Argentina

Fruit intense • Full bodied • Intense • Tannic

€ 80

Vivino Average

The Catena Zapata wines can stand proudly among the best in the world.

Dave McIntyre - The Washington Post

Vega Sicilia Unico

Ribera del Duero • Spain

Complex • Restraint • Nutty • Finesse

€ 295

Vivino Average

There’s something special about Vega Sicilia. It is unique. It is long-lived. It is Spain’s undisputed star.

Jamie Goode - Wine Anorak

Biondi Santi

Brunello di Montalcino • Tuscany • Italy

Freshness • Restraint • Mineral • Tannic

€ 145

Vivino Average

Established in the mid 1800s, Biondi-Santi is one of Italy’s greatest historic estates.

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Alphonse Mellot - Edmond

Sancerre • Loire • France

Aromatic • Freshness • Restraint • Mineral

€ 50

Vivino Average

Domaine Joseph Mellot is one of the very famous estates from the Loire Valley in France.

Social Vignerons

Guigal - La Mouline

Côte Rotie • Northern Rhône • France

Spicy • Mineral • Rich • Tannic

€ 390

Vivino Average

Guigal La Mouline is a contender for one of the most exotic and erotic wines on the planet!

Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider

Beaucastel - Hommage à J. Perrin

Châteauneuf-du-Pape • Southern Rhône • France

Full bodied • Mineral • Rich • Baked

€ 260

Vivino Average

five vintages with 100 points “it is unquestionably one of the greatest red wines I have every tasted”

Robert Parker - Wine Investment

Kongsgaard - The Judge - Chardonnay

Napa Valley • California • US

Elegant • Freshness • Fruit intense • Nutty

€ 400

Vivino Average

The 2015 Chardonnay The Judge may well be one of the all-time greatest Chardonnays ever made in California.

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW - Wine Advocate

Rayas

Châteauneuf-du-Pape • Southern Rhône • France

Full bodied • Intense • Mineral • Rich

€ 450

Vivino Average

Château Rayas, located within Châteauneuf-du-Pape, occupies one of the most unique sites in the wine world.

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Clos St Jean - Deus Ex Machina

Châteauneuf-du-Pape • Southern Rhône • France

Full bodied • Intense • Rich • Baked

€ 130

Vivino Average

This wine rose to fame with their label “Deus Ex Machina,” which garnered a 100 point score from Robert Parker in 2005

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Jaboulet-Ainé - La Chapelle

Hermitage • Northern Rhône • France

Elegant • Spicy • Mineral • Tannic

€ 160

Vivino Average

Drunk [La Chapelle] recently with Petrus '61 and Latour '61 and, for some, it was the winner! One can understand why.

Serena Sutcliffe MW - Sotheby's Finest and Rarest Wines

Hirtzberger - Smaragd Honigvogl

Grüner Veltliner • Wachau • Austria

Full bodied • Intense • Over ripe • Rich

€ 80

Vivino Average

The simplicity of this approach allows the wines to have a transparency of place and a complexity that simply astonish.

Vinography

Tignanello

Toscana • Tuscany • Italy

Fruit intense • Jammy • Intense • Nutty

€ 95

Vivino Average

It's impossible to underestimate the importance of Tignanello in changing Italy's wine culture. Particularly in Chianti Classico.

James Lawrence - Wine-Searcher

Romanée Conti

Richebourg • Burgundy • France

Elegant • Restraint • Mineral • Finesse

€ 2.400

Vivino Average

I was 23 years of age, but I was smitten: that wine inspired a burning desire in me to go and see the land and people that had made it.

Allen Meadows - Burghound

Beaucastel - Rousanne V.V.

Châteauneuf-du-Pape • Southern Rhône • France

Aromatic • Exotic • Rich • Baked

€ 125

Vivino Average

Chateauneuf du Pape Roussanne Vieilles Vignes is an off-the-hook effort and certainly the greatest white produced in the Southern Rhone.

Jeb Dunnuck

Almaviva - Mouton Rothschild

Rothschild - Concha y Toro • Puento Alto • Chile

Aromatic • Fruit intense • Intense • Ripe

€ 135

Vivino Average

Almaviva is a partnership of Bordeaux first-growth Chateau Mouton-Rothschild and Concha y Toro. Made in the style of top of the line Pauillac

Jay. S. Miller - Wine Advocate

Opus One

Napa Valley • California • US

Complex • Fruit intense • Full bodied • Ripe

€ 385

Vivino Average

I open a Chablis and I remember all the Raveneau I used to drink and how now I can’t fucking afford it. Wine is memory. And maybe memory is wine.

Ron Washam - Hosemaster of Wine

Angelus

St Emilion • Bordeaux • France

Full bodied • Intense • Mineral • Nutty

€ 350

Vivino Average

Angelus luxuriates in tannin and fruit, but retains its vitality. It’s more obviously plush than Cheval, and goes with the hedonistic quality of the vintage.

Sarah Abbott MV - Tim Atkin MS

Conterno - Monfortino

Barolo • Piedmont • Italy

Complex • Expressive • Full bodied • Tannic

€ 1.600

Vivino Average

The Barolos of Giacomo Conterno are among the most beautiful wines in the world: gorgeously pure and packed with flavors that feel almost three-dimensional.

The New York Times - Eric Asimov - The Pour

Chapoutier - l'Ermite

Ermitage • Northern Rhône • France

Aromatic • Full bodied • Mineral • Rich

€ 880

Vivino Average

Ermitage “L’Ermite” Blanc is the most individual statement in the Hermitage appellation, and the most prized for followers of M. Chapoutier’s grandest of crus.

Terlato Wines

Guigal - La Doriane

Condrieu • Northern Rhône • France

Aromatic • Exotic • Fruit intense • Mineral

€ 75

Vivino Average

Guigal's La Mouline, La Landonne and La Turque have always been among the best and most highly sought-after wines from France's Rhône Valley.

James Molesworth - Wine Spectator

Trimbach - Clos St. Hune

Riesling • Alsace • France

Aromatic • Freshness • Mineral • Rich

€ 180

Vivino Average

Single-vineyard wines are not that common in Alsace, and over the decades Clos Ste-Hune has won a reputation as the finest of them all.

Decanter

Zind-Humbrecht - Clos St Urbain

Gewurtztraminer • Alsace • France

Aromatic • Exotic • Fruit intense • Full bodied

€ 70

Vivino Average

Domaine Zind Humbrecht is one of the top wine producers in Alsace, responsible for over 30 wines, made mainly with Riesling, Pinot Gris and Gewürztraminer.

The Buyer - Justin Keay

Pape Clément

Pessac Léognan • Graves France

Aromatic • Complex • Nutty • Rich

€ 145

Vivino Average

It is one of most exquisite dry white I have ever tasted from anywhere.

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate

Marcassin Vineyard

Sonoma County • California • US

Freshness • Fruit intense • Spicy • Nutty

€ 250

Vivino Average

Helen Turley is the owner of Marcassin Vineyard. She is the recipient of several prestigious American wine awards.

Wikipedia

Coche Dury - Les Perrières

Chablis Premier Cru • Burgundy • France

Freshness • Restraint • Mineral • Rich

€ 1.600

Vivino Average

The last two decades have seen the elusive and mysterious Jean-François Coche emerge as “the essence of Burgundy’s vigneron culture”.

Fine+Rare

Penfolds Grange

Australia

Complex • Exotic • Fruit intense • Full bodied

€ 700

Vivino Average

Tthe most expensive Australian wine, 1951 Penfolds Grange. A wine collector paid AUS$50,200 for a bottle at an Australian auction house.

The Telegraph