2018 Château Grand Village

Community Tasting Notes (11) Median Score: 90 points

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  3/1/2024 - Wine Diplomats Likes this wine: 91 Points

  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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  7/17/2023 - WilliamPaget Does not like this wine:

  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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  10/25/2022 - MichelNL Likes this wine: 80 Points

  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.

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  9/3/2022 - Ianjaig wrote: 88 Points

  Fine but a little one dimensional.

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  2/8/2022 - blank blank wrote: 86 Points

  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.

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