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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.5 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 33 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by tim m on 1/28/2024 & rated 91 points: This one needs time. Better on day 3 than day 1 or 2. If you open it now, air it for hours. (621 views) | | | Tasted by BrunelloBob on 11/4/2023: WAY too young, but promising. Great nose. Give it 5-10 years (880 views) | | | Tasted by javierbb on 12/31/2022 & rated 93 points: Ha aparecido la madera, olvidarlo por 2-3 años (1822 views) | | | Tasted by fredb on 11/7/2022: Medium red color, medium transparency. Aromas of sweet plum, cherry, and raspberry. Palate has cherry/currant core of red fruit with vanilla, some floral elements, a bit of sweet tobacco leaf, and some plum in the medium finish. Pretty much what I was expecting. Drink now or hold for extended development experiment. Structure seems to support it. (1781 views) | | | Tasted by dekevain on 11/4/2022 & rated 92 points: Fresh black fruit, seriously grippy tannins, mild leather on the nose. I think this will keep well for a while but is great now! (1867 views) | | | Tasted by MicklethePickle on 8/14/2022 & rated 92 points: Popped and poured. This is nice, drinkable already. Pretty, opaque blood-red. Clings to the glass. Fresh red fruit nose with some sawdust. Ripe, round and ready in the mouth, quite pretty to taste. Good value wine. Ready now, but plenty of stuffing to age, too. 5-12-17-8: 92/100. (2446 views) | | | Tasted by wineotim on 3/19/2022 & rated 90 points: Tannins of steel, there's even some subtle metallic notes to accompany them. Fruit is reticent and so is the nose. Three days to finish this. (2538 views) | | | Tasted by azb on 2/6/2022 & rated 90 points: Could use more age but showing well. Excellent value for price. (2055 views) | | | Tasted by MJP Hou TX on 2/1/2022 & rated 91 points: Picked up three of this on the suggest of Michel Thibault wines. At $25 this offers great value. As another CT'er noted there is a toasted note that is a little bitter and hides the opulent plush fruit. Not sure if this gets worked out with time. I personally enjoyed this after a few days of slow ox in the bottle.
91 (3587 views) | | | Tasted by Kriz on 1/16/2022 & rated 90 points: Potential! But needs several years to come together. Lot's of power here. Ripe black fruit, oak and present alcohol sharpness. Try again in 2027. (1966 views) | | | Tasted by Italianwinefan on 12/1/2021 & rated 93 points: Made from 100% Merlot. Holy crap is this is a great bottle. Graphite, tobacco, earth, smoke, black cherry, & gravel. Tannins are corse yet at the same time silky. I do recommend you get two and age one for a while. Great with steak. (1878 views) | | | Tasted by Best QPR Tracker on 11/5/2021 & rated 87 points: If you like the bitterness of a highly burned barrel tannin extraction more than I do, then you may appreciate this wine more than I did. This distracts from enjoying the good stuff behind. Completely overshadowed by a delicious and so much more elegantly made Château Fontenil 2018 tasted next to it, rated 92.5. (2040 views) | | | Tasted by happy712 on 8/29/2021 & rated 93 points: What a bargain! Decanted ~30 minutes, but could have drank it right when opened. This drinks like a $50 bottle of right bank. Deep, dark fruit, nice finish. Would not age. (2054 views) | | | Tasted by vvWine.ch on 5/22/2021 & rated 91 points: 91 vvPunkte Die Nase anfangs etwas verhalten, leicht reduktiv, braucht etwas Zeit, zeigt eine mineralische Komponente, dunkle Kirschfrucht, Pflaume und rauchige Noten. Im Gaumen druckvoll, straff, mit guter Konzentration, einer sehr schönen Tanninstruktur und einer rassigen Säure, der Alkohol dominiert nicht, die Elemente wirken harmonisch aufeinander abgestimmt. Würziger, leicht salziger Abgang. 2024-2035+ (April 2021) (2472 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 3/9/2021 & rated 94 points: Rich, fruity, opulent and sensuous, this supple textured gem pops with espresso, dark fruits, chocolate, licorice and smoke. The wine is full-bodied, velvety and rich with layers of fruits on the finish. If you can wait 5 years or so, this will be an even better wine. (2880 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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(Château Les Gravières St.-Emilion , France) Subscribe to see review text. | By Neal Martin
Vinous, The Future’s Definitely Not What It Was: Bordeaux 2018 (Mar 2021) (3/21/2021)
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Vinous, Bordeaux 2018: Back in Black (Apr 2019) (4/1/2019)
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| Château Les Gravières Producer websiteRed 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 RimmermanLibournais Libournais (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux) - Read more about St. Emilion and its wines - Read more about Pomerol and its wines
Saint Emilion Grat Classified Growth, Classified Growths, Grands Crus Classes, GCC
In 1954, while the "Graves" growths had just published their own classification, the wine syndicate of Saint-Emilion, composed by wine growers, brokers and wine traders with the approval of the INAO - Institut National des Appellations d'Origine (A.O.C), decided to work on a classification for the wines of Saint Emilion. Initially, four grades were defined. These were reduced to two - First Great Classified Growth (A and B) and Great Classified Growth - in 1984.
As of Medoc's 1855 historical grading, the Saint-Emilion Great Classified Growth classification is not only based on qualitative criteria by tasting the wines on a ten years period previous to the assessment, but also on commercial considerations such as:
- sales price levels
- national and international commercial distribution
- the estate's reputation on the market
Properties who don't manage to join the club of about sixty Classified Growths are given the denomination of Great Growth ("Grand Cru"), while the remaining wineries of the A.O.C are simply reported as "Saint-Emilion". It is to be noted that the owners must officially apply to appear in the official classification. Thus for example the famous Chateau Tertre-Roteboeuf, whose quality and reputation would easily justify to be listed among the First Great Classified Growths, does not appear here by the will of its owner, François Mitjaville.
The Saint-Emilion Great Growth classification was revised in 1969, 1985, 1996 and 2006. The only two guaranteed vintage (A.O.C) who can apply to the classification are the "Saint-Emilion Grand Cru" and "Saint-Emilion" areas.
By grading 61 properties, the 2006 revision confirmed many growths from the former classification, but also caused a number of surprises and a few inevitable disappointments. Many observers thought that the impressive progression of Perse's Chateau Pavie since 1998 would be rewarded by an upgrade into the First Great Classified Growths (A) category, but finally such was not the case.
Among the estates promoted to the First Great Classified Growths B category are Chateau Troplong-Mondot and Pavie-Macquin, whose efforts made since the Nineties fully justify their new grade. It should be noted that no First Great Classified Growth was relegated to the lower Great Classified Growth class.
Promoted growths from the status of Great Growth ("Grand Cru") to Great Classified Growth ("Grand Cru Classe") are: Chateaux Bellefont-Belcier, Destieux, Fleur Cardinale, Grand Corbin, Grand Corbin-Despagne and Monbousquet.
The demoted growths from the status of Great Classified Growth to Great Growth are: Chateaux Bellevue, Cadet Bon, Faurie de Souchard, Guadet Saint-Julien, La Tour du Pin-Figeac (Belivier), La Tour du Pin-Figeac (Moueix), Lamarzelle, Petite Faurie de Soutard, Tertre Daugay, Villemaurine and Yon-Figeac. If the recent samples of some of the above mentioned properties may justify their current downgrade, there are great chances that estates like Bellevue, Tertre Daugay or Yon-Figeac will be upgraded to their previous rankings by the next revision in 2016 as the progresses noted after 2000, but not entering in the range of vintages (1993 - 2002) appointed for the criteria of selection for the 2006 classification, are noticable.
The two following estates have completely disappeared from the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classification: Curé-Bon-la-Madeleine (integrated meanwhile to Chateau Canon) and La Clusière (integrated meanwhile to Chateau Pavie).
Finally, no estate considered as "garagiste" has integrated the classification. Valandraud, Mondotte, Le Dome, Bellevue-Mondotte or Magrez-Fombrauge have, for the least, the potential to be ranked as Great Classified Growths. In sight of the very fine quality reached by the above mentioned estates in recent vintages as well as all the innovative wine making methods used by the "garagistes", it remains to be seen whether the authorities will dare to cross the line in 2016..?St. Émilion Grand Cru Les Vins de St. Émilion (Syndicate Vitocole de Saint-Emilion) – Read about St. Emilion
Vins de Bordeaux:
Grape Varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot
Soil: Sandy soils with alluvial gravel deposits
Surface Area: 4,160 ha |
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