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Manage Subscriptions2018 Château Grand Village
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- Bordeaux
- Bordeaux Supérieur
Community Tasting Notes 11
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Wine Diplomats Likes this wine: 91 points
March 1, 2024 - 78% Merlot and 22% Cabernet Franc, 30% New Oak. The nose is dominated by oak notes of chocolate, tobacco and cedar. The palate is more fruit driven. It’s plummy and ripe with silky textures. Medium-low acid. There are still tannins to resolve without food, but it’s ok with food. The 15.5% alcohol is felt down the throat and not on the palate, but it’s barely holding it in. It has the texture and fruit profile of higher-end Bordeaux but for a lower price and ultimately less precision and intensity.
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WilliamPaget Does not like this wine:
July 17, 2023 - No doubt the folks at Lafleur can make good wine. This is not one of them. Raging acidity. Disjointed. Far from flawed, but not great.
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MichelNL Likes this wine: 80 points
October 25, 2022 - A - Ruby, medium plus, clear
N - Clear, medium intensity, red berries, blackberries, oak, dark cherries, barn, leather
T - Dry, body medium, accidity medium, tannins medium plus, all the flavours above, finish medium plus
C - Good
Ticks the boxes, perhaps a bit dull. All you could expect from a decent Bordeaux S. -
Ianjaig wrote: 88 points
September 3, 2022 - Fine but a little one dimensional.
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blank blank wrote: 86 points
February 8, 2022 - When i first tasted this, I thought, jesus, this tastes like a Napa Petite Sirah, and lo, it lists a 15.5% ABV on the bottle. Fifteen-point-f'ing-five percent alcohol.
It is certainly the least conventional and least representative bottle of bordeaux I have ever had - more like a Barossa bdx blend than anything resembling the old world. Tons and tons of purple fruit with some raisin character; sinus-clearing alcoholic heat; good tannic structure, good acidity, a hint of mint. Absolutely nothing green or cedary here, as this is FULL THROTTLE PEDAL TO THE FLOOR HOLD ON TIGHT BOYZ fruit and booze.
It is more or less the precise opposite of what I like in my Bordeaux - there are plenty of other places in the world that can make blackberry pie wine - but I don't think its objectively bad. There are probably a lot of inexperienced drinkers who would be blown away by this, and I assume that's the market they're going for.3 people found this helpful Comment
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By James Lawther MW
Second site St-Emilion & Pomerol, 6/3/2021 (link)(Château Grand Village, Bordeaux Supérieur, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jeb Dunnuck
2018 Bordeaux From The Bottle, 3/11/2021 (link)(Grand Village (Lafleur)) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Antonio Galloni
Bordeaux 2018: Not Back in Black (Mar 2021), 3/1/2021 (link)(Grand Village (Lafleur) Grand Village Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Neal Martin
The Future’s Definitely Not What It Was: Bordeaux 2018 (Mar 2021), 3/1/2021 (link)(Grand Village (Lafleur) Grand Village Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By James Suckling
1/28/2021 (link)(Château Grand Village Bordeaux, Red, France) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
1/15/2021 (link)(Ch Grand Village Bordeaux Supérieur Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jane Anson
Bordeaux in bottle 2018, 11/10/2020 (link)(Château Grand Village, Bordeaux Supérieur, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Neal Martin
The Future’s Not What It Was: Bordeaux 2018 (Nov 2019), 11/1/2019 (link)(Grand Village Grand Village Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jeb Dunnuck
Bordeaux Rising: The 2018s En Primeur, 5/1/2019 (link)(Grand Village (Lafleur) Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Julia Harding, MW
4/3/2019 (link)(Ch Grand Village Bordeaux Supérieur Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By James Suckling
4/1/2019 (link)(Château Grand Village Bordeaux, Red, France) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Antonio Galloni
Bordeaux 2018: Back in Black (Apr 2019), 4/1/2019 (link)(Grand Village Grand Village Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Chris Kissack
April 2019, 4/1/2019 (link)(Château Grand Village Bordeaux Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jane Anson
Bordeaux En Primeur 2018 Smaller appellations, 3/31/2019 (link)(Château Grand Village, Bordeaux, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2018
- Type Red
- Producer Château Grand Village
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Bordeaux Supérieur
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 67 (11%)
- In Cellars 457 (75%)
- Consumed 89 (15%)
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