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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.7 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 117 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by englishman's claret on 4/22/2024 & rated 92 points: The 2001 Calon Ségur has a serious disposition, austere rather than generous but appealing nonetheless with a nose full of red cherry, redcurrant, juniper, warm cedar, and Iberian ham. Rather austere in the mouth, the fruit reluctant but the tannin present front and center! Lithe and well-proportioned, this offers plenty of pleasure in its slightly introverted way. (479 views) | | | Tasted by melvinyeowq on 3/29/2024 & rated 91 points: Bordeaux night: Initially muted with all tannins and no fruit, rather burly and clumsy that almost everyone didn’t like it. Revisited a couple of hours later and a wonderful opaque core of black fruit emerged to balance out the drying tannins. A little more modern than I would have liked but not overly so. (550 views) | | | Tasted by chbeaumont on 1/17/2024 & rated 88 points: Opaque core, some bricking at rim; stern nose, dark fruits, cedar, menthol; carries through to a rugged palate; punchy finish, burly even. Very long indeed Probably more to come. (757 views) | | | Tasted by sjfunkenhauser on 10/15/2023 & rated 93 points: Medium Garnet.
Pronounced aromas of cassis, ripe strawberry, boysenberry, bramble, forest floor, dirt, leather, cinnamon, all spice, dried lavender, cigar box, tea.
Medium (+) palate.
Medium (+) body, high acidity, medium (+) tannins, long finish. (1195 views) | | | Tasted by cnordstr on 9/21/2023 & rated 92 points: Just entering drinking window. Medium acid, medium tannins, lots of fruit and long finish. Pleasant wine to drink. Or keep :-) (1076 views) | | | Tasted by Irish_Wine on 4/9/2023 & rated 92 points: Lovely nose showing some development with bramble fruit, cigar box, cinnamon, leather and savoury notes. Refined on the medium bodied palate which finishes long and savoury. Drinking well now but no immediate rush.
WSET notes:
Medium garnet.
Pronounced on the nose with blackcurrant, black plum, raspberry, bramble, cedar, cinnamon, tobacco, leather, savoury notes and dried blackberry. Developing.
Pronounced and dry on the palate. Medium plus acidity, medium plus partly resolved tannins, medium body, medium alcohol, long finish.
Can drink now but has potential for aging. (1826 views) | | | Tasted by liber on 12/31/2022 & rated 90 points: 1st of 6, decanted 2 hours, perfect cork and level - bright, glossy, slightly transparent ruby, little development; cassis, plum, earthy minerality, hints of tobacco and green herbs, quite complex if primary; medium, ok length and persistence, not particularly concentrated but nicely balanced, primary slightly edgy and reticent fruit, upside and upgrade likely, 20+ years. VGI (17). (1948 views) | | | Tasted by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on 6/21/2022 & rated 90 points: Popped and poured and drank over 2 hours at a wine bar. Still primary and not as open for business as I had expected. Perhaps the bottle had been stored so well (cold?) for so long that this has not really aged / evolved. Still as very well made wine, but just too early (?) for my taste. (2731 views) | | | Tasted by drmarclevine on 2/19/2022 & rated 92 points: Decanted for 90 minutes. Complex aromas in the glass. Initial hit of strawberry deepened into black raspberry buoyed by cough drop, pine cones, library dust, and even some burnt cinnamon. Intensified with air. Not quite as exciting in the mouth. Unsweetened raspberry jam fortified by cedar, tobacco, and a pleasant green stalkiness. Medium weight with just a touch of hollowness in the middle leading to a medium/long finish. This is a classic-style claret without much flash and opulence but with great typicity and old-school charm. (2820 views) | | | Tasted by TashNYC on 1/15/2022 & rated 91 points: Red fruit, bramble, forest floor, pine, cedar and soy. Delicious on its own. Not as exciting with the beef Guinness stew.
Drink now. (2887 views) | | | Tasted by Loathesome on 7/5/2021 & rated 88 points: Bearing in mind how youthful the 2001s were in their youth I was surprised how backward this still was. Very dark red and nice fruit nose but slightly austere and earthy on palate. Hopefully in 7-10 years the fruit is still there. (3750 views) | | | Tasted by DHop Wine on 4/30/2021 & rated 90 points: Very fresh nose, filled with jammy bramble and plum, crushed stone, forest floor, tobacco, and some cedar, very elegant. Beautiful body with firm acid, fine tannins, and M+ body. Dark fruit, cocoa, forest floor, leather, and anise carry out to the finish with a medium length finish. Reaffirming my love of the left bank, St-Estephe, and Calon-Ségur - a stunning wine and great vintage with great expression, intensity, balance, and complexity. Some room to go on aging, maybe peaking in next 5 years. (3293 views) | | | Tasted by chefdilletante on 3/5/2021: Dusty nose. Furniture varnish, leather. Some anise, with a touch of bitterness. Tannins mostly resolved but slightly drying. Finish is short. (3199 views) | | | Tasted by clinet12 on 2/14/2021 & rated 87 points: Brick color at the rim, tertiary aromas, leather notes, short to medium length finish, I was expecting more from this 20 year old wine. Slightly disappointed. (2899 views) | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 2/9/2021 & rated 92 points: 2001 20-years on Commanderie dinner. Initially closed, needed a proper decant. Opend up nices, brooding aromas of earthy notes with dark fruit, really nice and classic nose. The palate was still quite rustic after 20 years. I think the recent Calon Segurs manage that much better. (3794 views) | | | Tasted by pcwoz on 1/2/2021 & rated 94 points: tarting to get some brownish hue. Graphite. Really fresh still due to acid backbone. Medium to medium plus mouthfeel. Really savoury. Black currant and blackberry. Pretty earthy, but integrated. A little bit of a metallic note at the end, but not bloody like a old Northern Rhône - Côte-Rôtie - can be though. Thoroughly great Bordeaux, which is drinking well. Tannins still a little drying on the end, which I like. I think this still has plenty of aging possibilities.
93-94: This is improving with age since I last tried it. (2358 views) | | | Tasted by winot on 9/26/2020 & rated 90 points: Medium rust-tinged red with aging at the rim - nice incense and subtle cigar box nose, a little subdued - palate same, quite winey, it is well integrated and ready to go - tannin support, has several years ahead of it, but drinking well - the finish has a trace of bramble, and I suspect this will be excellent with the steak...it was. But I also have to say that for a top-notch winery in a very good Medoc year, this was a little subdued. Technically correct and tasted great, but there was a bit of a lack of spark and excitement. (2860 views) | | | Tasted by Vancouver on 9/3/2020 & rated 90 points: Drank with roast chicken dinner as the lockdown enters month 6....
Medium ruby in appearance with some noticeable lightening at the rim.
The nose is classic "restrained" St Estephe-black fruits, vanilla, tobacco and some spice. Its all there , just needs some coaxing (after almost 20 years!)
Medium bodied with medium acidity and fully integrated tannins. Hard to describe but the palate is exactly what you would imagine in a 20 year old St Estephe. All about finesse and a great food wine.
The finish is medium plus.
Not a blockbuster by any stretch of the imagination , just a delicious food wine that disappeared quickly. Fans of the style will love this and this is also the type of wine that you can keep "forever" in a cold cellar.
This bottle was purchased on release and stored properly ever since. (2477 views) | | | Tasted by Jon Gash on 8/2/2020 & rated 85 points: Disappointing. Past it’s best I think. (2371 views) | | | Tasted by forceberry on 7/23/2020 & rated 93 points: A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (53%), Merlot (38%), Cabernet Franc (7%) and Petit Verdot (2%). 12,5% alcohol. Decanted for 1 hour and drunk over another hour or two. Tasted alongside Montrose 2001 and rather underwhelming Leoville-Barton 2001.
Dark, somewhat translucent blackish-red color with a dried-blood hue - looks almost identical to Montrose with only slightly darker hue. The nose feels seductive, somewhat evolved yet not quite mature nose with suave, slightly sweet-toned aromas of wizened blackcurrants, some ripe dark fruits, light fragrant notes of dried flowers and crushed rose petals, a little bit of jammy dark fruit, a hint of beef jerky and a touch of apple. The wine feels quite full-bodied, dry and rather tough on the palate with intense flavors of juicy red plums, some blackcurrant tones, a little bit of toasty oak spice, light notes of cherry, oaky hints of savory wood and chocolate chips and a sanguine touch of iron. The wine is rather structured for its age with its high acidity and still rather assertive and grippy tannins, lending a quite tightly-knit feel to the wine. The finish is long, juicy and moderately grippy with intense flavors of black cherries, some savory wood spice, a little bit of mocha oak, light fruity notes of ripe blackcurrants and red plums and a hint of graphite.
An enjoyably stern, structured and at the same time surprisingly suave St. Estèphe that is starting to show the first signs of age yet still comes across as pretty youthful. In this mini-horizontal of three wines, this felt the youngest one, but when it comes to quality, this was pretty much on par with Montrose 2001, perhaps coming across as slightly more impressive due to the relatively youthful fruit and impressive power here. The oak is still somewhat evident and most likely this wine could use another 5-10 years to both integrate the wood tones and resolve the structure a bit more. All in all, a fine, muscular Bordeaux. Good value at 59,70€. (2845 views) | | | Tasted by Oskiwawa on 1/31/2020 & rated 91 points: opened and decanted for 3 hours. Drank over the next three. A decent aged wine. Benefited from the decant and help up well over the entire time. Should hold for 5-10 years. Solid but not great. (3148 views) | | | Tasted by MJHB on 1/5/2020 & rated 91 points: Pencil shaving and sour cherries but very smooth. Dark, deep garnet.
Wait 2022 for next 2 bottles. (2669 views) | | | Tasted by vinhonotte on 12/11/2019 & rated 92 points: Deep garnet but clearly fading at edges. Red floral and red cherry aromas, with a slight menthol dash. Palate full of sour cherry, bramble, moss, and twigs, and still pretty structured. Well balanced. Rosy backpalate and finish, tending to a cola fizz (2682 views) | | | Tasted by Euoinos on 10/22/2019 & rated 90 points: Vanilla, cherries, tobacco. Slightly thin. (2846 views) | | | Tasted by C@ETV on 9/11/2019 & rated 92 points: (blind) bright, medium deep colouring. Classic cedar, pencil and black dry fruit on the nose. Some elegance. Attack is medium; ripe but not overtly so. Good balance; nice acidity, average length. Rounds out better with time, but lacks a bit of stuffing. Left bank from a classic, not overtly ripe vintage. Lovely for what it is. No rush and arguably better in a couple of years (3040 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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| Château Calon-Ségur Producer website - Read more about Chateau Calon SegurRed 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.St. Estèphe Read more about St. Estephe and its wines Whereas the first activity recorded in Saint-Estèphe goes back as far as the Middle Bronze Age, the first vines date from the Roman Occupation. But it was the Bordeaux merchants who by aging and selling Saint-Estèphe wines themselves were largely responsible for this appellation's fame. And in the nineteenth century, noted for its prosperity, the great estates of today were created. The movement continues today with the merging of small estates.
A land of great wines, Saint-Estèphe is situated almost in the centre of the Médoc, close to the Gironde Estuary. The appellation is equidistant from Bordeaux and the Pointe de Grave.
The beds of soil are characterized by their remarkable diversity, the result of their undulating relief and excellent drainage. Quartz and well-rounded pebbles mingled with light, sandy surface soil are found everywhere, giving the wines a distinctive finesse. And the subsoil is made up of the famous Saint-Estèphe limestone, which outcrops on the west of the commune.
Tasting
Thanks to ideal conditions of climate and geology, Saint-Estèphe wines are characterized by their sturdy qualities and robust constitution. Accordingly, they can be laid down for a very long time while yet preserving their youth and freshness. Distinguished by a subsoil which is more clayey than that in the other communal appellations which lie by the river, the wine here attains a distinctive individuality : a very rich tannic structure, a fine deep red colour and an exceptional backbone with aromas of great finesse.
Production conditions (Decree dated September 11, 1936):
In order to have the right to the Saint-Estèphe appellation of controlled origin, red wines must:
- come from the communes of Saint-Estèphe, "excluding any parcels in that area which are 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 (45 hectolitres per hectare). |
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