2018 Château Grand Mayne

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 90 points

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  11/5/2023 - Wine in the Woods with Beth Likes this wine:

  This is a very good wine that begins in your mouth with an explosion of red and black plums. The fruit concentration (pronounced) is balanced by Medium (+) acidity and high tannins. The complexity of this wine comes from a variety of primary fruit clusters (floral, red and black fruit) and secondary aromas and flavors from oak aging ( vanilla, cloves, licorice and smoke). In addition, the finish is long with flowers of black plum, smoke and licorice that linger. The lack of tannin integration keeps this wine from being outstanding resulting in chalky tannins slightly overpowering the fruit flavors.

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  1/15/2022 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Grand Mayne's 2018 is a deep crimson blend of 67% Merlot and 33% Cabernet Franc, aged for 18 months in French oak barriques (70% new, 30% once-used). This particular bottle was Vinturi-decanted and serially sampled over the ensuing three hours. Two hours in decanter are beneficial in allowing this lush red to fully unleash its seductive aromatic profile of dark bramble fruits, black cherries, licorice, baking spices, bittersweet chocolate, violets and savory herbs. Full-bodied, fresh and without any heat from its 14.5% alcohol, it delivers flavors mirroring the nose and stays solid on the mid-palate. The wine's plentiful tannins are fine-grained and the oak is nicely proportioned. Long, layered and energetic on the finish, this is a structured Right Bank offering that will get even better with additional time in the cellar. This should easily reach its twenty-fifth birthday and may merit a classic score sometime between now and then. Drink 2026-2043.

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  6/21/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 Points

  Amsterdam UGCB Tasting (Amstel Boathouse, Amsterdam, NL): Very tannic. It’s got the ripe fruit, but those tannins are huge! Not sure where this is going, if anywhere. Non-committal score.

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  4/3/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  This is my favorite vintage of Grand Mayne yet. The wine is rich, lush, round and packed with sweet, ripe, fresh, opulent black cherries, plums and chocolate. The wine has good concentration, a nose of smoke, licorice, roasted, dark red pit fruits and a finish stocked with dusty, chocolate-covered, fresh dark plums. This is so good now. But its best day are a few years away. Start drinking this in 2028 and enjoy it for the next 15 or more years after that. Grand Mayne is not a showy style of wine. It is more like a refined, elegant version of Classic Bordeaux.

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  4/19/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  With a floral accented perfume, you also find ripe, black cherries, thyme, smoke and espresso. Medium-bodied, elegant, round, soft, silky and fresh, the sweet, red fruit in the finish hits the spot. 93-95 Pts

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