2019 Château Croizet-Bages

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91 points

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  10/31/2023 - kostaslonis wrote:

  2019 Bordeaux Tasting, MW tasting (Vintner's Hall, London): 66% CS 34% Mer, 14.50%
  Reductive in the nose, spicy/clove, apple notes (acetaldehyde)
  Palate is juicy, bold tannins, herbal notes, fresh, med body, lacks balance, needs time

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  2/2/2023 - JimHow Likes this wine: 93 Points

  So back in the summer of 1979, when I was 20 years old, and I weighed in at 139 lbs., and I was going to be the President of the United States of America someday without any question, I was malingering on a bench one afternoon at Christ's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, U.K., during a time when I was studying Shakespeare and Victorian History. Christ's College is the alma mater of Erasmus, Milton, and Darwin... and some dude named Sacha Baron Cohen... and I'm guessing more than a few other lunatics. I think there is a Monty Python alum or two with a connection. I was sitting on a bench near Milton's mulberry tree in the garden there at Christ's College, planted back in 1609 and still there to this day, and one of my professors came by and asked me what I was reading... David Copperfield, which I had finally gotten around to... and I recall the old stuffed shirt saying to me... "Well, you can certainly do worse than that...." And I remember that was the day, in the summer of 1979, when I was 20 years old, that I first learned the word "corroboration"... Such a British, Victorian word.... I was at Chapter 23 of David Copperfield, titled; "I Corroborate Mr. Dick and Choose a Profession." I thought of that moment in time, back in the summer of 1979, in the garden at Christ's College, Cambridge, when I sipped the 2019 Chateau Croizet-Bages tonight, a very lovely Pauillac, in all my years of drinking Bordeaux I'm not sure I've had the pleasure of a Croizet-Bages, this is an Oxford-Cambridge kind of effort, checking in at a "low" 13% alcohol level. I love this wine! To me it is about as "classic" Pauillac as you are going to find! It is great, and "corroborates" everything that I have heard about the 2019 vintage, which some, no less than the experts at Farr Vintners, are calling the "greatest vintage ever." I have to say, from what I'm seeing, 2019 is 2016 with personality." I have been stunned by what I have seen from 2019 so far, especially the Montrose, and now this beautiful Croizet-Bages, whose loveliness "corroborates" the reputed greatness of the 2019 Bordeaux vintage. I got this for in the $30 range on sale in NH, will search out more. Classic, pure, beautifully representative of the Pauillac terroir, and coming in at a beautifully balanced 13%, which defines this wine. Bravo! 93+ points.

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  11/5/2022 - chatters wrote:

  Decanter Fine Wine Encounter (The Landmark, London): Black hued fruit, sweet spice, slight cedar. Sweetly fruited on the palate, juicy, a little graphite, slight talc textured tannins. Simple. Time. Hmm.

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  3/29/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 90 Points

  Medium-bodied, fresh, bright and savory, with a strong, leafy, cedar, tobacco leaf edge to the crisp, red berries, the wine sits firmly on the corner of classic and rustic, with a bit of a softer, riper, polished edge. There is a strong, green, peppery, olive hint in the red currant finish. Drink from 2025-2042.

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  1/13/2022 - vvWine.ch wrote: 90 Points

  90 vvPunkte (Verkostet im November 2021 in Zürich) Zugänglich, floral, verspielt, Tee und Kräuter, rote Beeren. Saftiger Gaumen, mittlerer Körper, etwas trocknendes Tannin, schöne Säure. Hat zulegen können. 2025-2038. vvWine.ch

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