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| Community Tasting Notes (average 82.3 pts. and median of 86 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by chatters on 10/7/2020: First Wednesday Wine Club (Napoli in Bocca, Haberfield): Served blind.
Savoury, leather, wet blackcurrant, cedar, pencil shavings, old armchair...in the mouth it has juicy acidity that is quite fresh, savoury spices, blackcurrant, pencil shavings, leathery tannins.
This was my other wine in the tasting. (1029 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 5/27/2020: From Coravin. Aromas of leather, autumn leaves, blackcurrant and brambles, sweet spice and a little polished oak, a little red currant. Juicy acid, grippy tight tannins are a little large for the dark fruit core but this is very nice and in good nick. (1051 views) | | | Tasted by Blunschis on 1/31/2013 & rated 60 points: Bad (3734 views) | | | Tasted by SimonG on 4/29/2009: Same bottle as Otto. Decent claret punching aboove its weight. mature, slightly truffley, gamey aromas on top of the blackcurrant fruit. Served blind I thought this was somewhere in the Medoc/Haut Medoc but didn't pin it down further. Not the longest or the most complex but very decent and great vfm if bought on release. *** (5352 views) | | | Tasted by tiggerevnstn on 6/3/2008 & rated 89 points: Still somewhat closed. Will benefit from more bottle age. (5585 views) | | | Tasted by king-bing on 7/20/2007 & rated 85 points: 1995/1996 Cru Bourgeois offline (Canteen, London): From the pre-Pichon Lalande era. Slightly muted nose, some beefiness. Shows a fair maturity of colour. Still pretty tannic highish acidity. Nice savouriness bit dilute for me. (3408 views) | | | Tasted by Paul D on 7/20/2007 & rated 85 points: UK Wine Pages 1995/1996 Cru Bourgeois Offline (Canteen Restaurant, Spitalfields, London): Mature, bovrilly nose. Mature, attractive if a little light on the palate. Quite supple and tasty but not very long. Drink now. (4904 views) | | | Tasted by rob1869 on 7/20/2007 & rated 87 points: Pronounced meaty, slightly rubbery nose; medium+ body; slightly tannic. Rated 90 on the night due to outperformance of nose v others. (5188 views) | | | Tasted by mhavelka on 6/7/2005 & rated 88 points: This was my first experience with Chateau Bernadotte - three bottles were given to me as a gift from a long-time oenophile! He instructed me not to touch it until 2005, so here goes. Opened it about 1 hour before consumption time and decanted into captains decanter. Immediately the wine showed to be just a little closed off - not so much fruit on the nose. After about 20 minutes the fruit began to appear. We poured after an hour and a half in the decanter and the nose was very nice. Nice mineraly nose with a bit of cassis or boysenberry on the nose - just a wee bit swampy (a good swampy though). No TCA, just earthy.
It was a bit of a disappointment I must admit. The fruit was there but the structure was off a bit and was pretty thin and loose. After the fruit dulled it was a bit woody but not at all deep. I waited 30 minutes for a second glass... same results. Poured back into the bottle and waited about three hours. Still very closed (MHO) and needs maybe a couple more years to hit its stride. My friend tells me it is (to him) a 94 point wine when on it's game... good but clearly not on its game today. 88 points. (3019 views) |
| Château Bernadotte Producer Website - Read more about Chateau BernadotteRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux)
History of Bordeaux
History of 1855 Bordeaux Classification
"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman
"The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanMédoc Vins du Médoc (Conseil des Vins du Médoc) - Read More about the Medoc
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The eight precisely defined appellations of the whole of the Médoc (from Blanquefort Brook to the north of the Bordeaux built-up area, almost to the Pointe de Grave) may claim the Médoc appellation. But there is also a specific territory in the north of the peninsula which produces exclusively wines with this appellation. In the great majority, the Médocs come from the north of the peninsula. The great individuality of this region is that the number of vines has increased more recently here than elsewhere, apart from a few isolated spots where vines have grown for many years. Today, the size of the small estate has brought about the development of a powerful co-operative movement. Four co-operatives out of five belong to the group called Unimédoc which ensures aging, bottling and marketing a large proportion of their wines.Haut-Médoc Read more about Haut Medoc and its wines Long-standing fame The legally created division into Médoc and Haut-Médoc dates from 1935. But as long ago as 1815 a Chartrons broker, whose word carried weight, spoke of great red wines in the Haut-Médoc, so recognizing the high quality successfully achieved by this region's growers in the eighteenth century. The same Bordeaux broker revealed that the business world of the Chartrons and the great Bordeaux proprietors had established a sort of league-table of the parishes in which the vine-growing communes of today's Haut-Médoc appellation showed up well.
The Haut-Médoc appellation stretches over some thirty seven miles from north to south, from Saint-Seurin de Cadourne to Blanquefort. Within this area, certain zones produce wines exclusively with the Haut-Médoc appellation. It has terroirs of remarkable quality. And although we may note a certain predominance of layers of gravel (essentially Garonne gravel) from the Quaternary, all these sites are characterized by their wide diversity. Today in the southernmost communes of the appellation, the suburbs of Bordeaux, numerous vineyards which existed at the beginning of the twentieth century have disappeared, victims of urban expansion. But the vines live on... because man has retained his devotion to them.
The astonishing variety of different terroirs, the result of the very extent of the area, explains the diversity of Haut-Médoc wines, a fact which is rare within one and the same appellation.
But, over and above the differences, linked to this mosaic of climatic and geological influence, all these wines have the same family traits of character.
Alert and lively, full-bodied without being too powerful, and harmoniously balanced, they acquire a rare bouquet over the years.
In order to have the right to the Haut-Médoc appellation of controlled origin, red wines must:
- come from the communes of Blanquefort, Le Taillan, Parempuyre, Le Pian, Ludon, Macau, Arsac, Labarde, Cantenac, Margaux, Avensan, Castelnau, Soussans, Arcins, Moulis, Listrac, Lamarque, Cussac, Saint-Laurent de Médoc, Saint-Julien, Pauillac, Saint-Sauveur, Cissac, Saint-Estèphe, Vertheuil, Saint-Seurin de Cadourne "excluding all the parcels situated on recent alluvium and sand on impermeable subsoils",
- satisfy precise production conditions : grape-varieties (Cabernet-Sauvignon, Cabernet-Franc, Carmenère, Merlot Noir, Petit Verdot, Cot or Malbec), minimum of sugar (178 grammes - 6.27 oz. - per litre of must) degree (an acquired 10°5) base yield (48 hectolitres per hectare).
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