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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 1 note) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 5/20/2022 & rated 91 points: Flowers, spice, tobacco leaf, herbs, and red fruits are on the nose. Medium-bodied, soft, elegant. refined, silky and fresh, there is a nice purity and sweetness to the fruits on the mid-palate and in the finish. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. The high proportion of Cab Franc in the blend really works in this vintage, adding depth of flavor and salinity. The wine blends 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2023-2033. 90-92 (2112 views) |
| By Jeb Dunnuck JebDunnuck.com, Bordeaux 2021 From Bottle (4/3/2024) (Grand Village (Lafleur)) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Antonio Galloni Vinous, 2021 Bordeaux: L’Enfant Terrible (Feb 2024) (2/1/2024) (Grand Village (Lafleur) Grand Village Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Chris Kissack Winedoctor, January 2024 (1/1/2024) (Château Grand Village Bordeaux Supérieur Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Georgina Hindle Decanter, Bordeaux 2021: In-bottle report (12/1/2023) (Château Grand Village, Merlot, Bordeaux Supérieur, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jeb Dunnuck JebDunnuck.com, 2021 Bordeaux: A Challenging Yet Good Vintage (6/2/2022) (Grand Village (Lafleur)) Login and sign up and see review text. | By James Suckling JamesSuckling.com (5/12/2022) (Château Grand Village Bordeaux Supérieur , France) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni Vinous, 2021 Bordeaux En Primeur: Back to Classicism (May 2022) (5/1/2022) (Grand Village (lafleur) Grand Village Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Neal Martin Vinous, Enticingly Fallible: Bordeaux 2021 En Primeur (May 2022) (5/1/2022) (Grand Village (lafleur) Grand Village Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Lawther MW JancisRobinson.com (4/26/2022) (Ch Grand Village Bordeaux Supérieur Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Georgina Hindle Decanter, Bordeaux En Primeur 2021 (4/1/2022) (Château Grand Village, Merlot, Bordeaux Supérieur, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Chris Kissack Winedoctor, April 2022 (4/1/2022) (Château Grand Village Bordeaux Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Neal Martin Vinous, 2+2=5: Bordeaux 2021 In Bottle (Feb 2024) (Grand Village Grand Village Red) Subscribe to see review text. | NOTE: Scores and reviews are the property of JebDunnuck.com and Vinous and Winedoctor and Decanter and JamesSuckling.com and JancisRobinson.com. (manage subscription channels) |
| Château Grand Village – Read about Chateau Grand VillageRed 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
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"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 RimmermanBordeaux Supérieur Read About Bordeaux Superieur - Bordeaux Supérieur - Read about Petit Chateau and Bordeaux Satellite Appellation wines |
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