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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.6 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 45 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by nywine68 on 2/29/2024 & rated 93 points: Vinous Icons of Bordeaux with Neal Martin (Legacy Records, New York City): The 2016 showed beautifully tonight. A very consistent pattern of bright red ripe fruit. This wine was very pretty and feminine. Superfine tannins. (1780 views) | | | Tasted by Jumbo-Jet on 1/2/2024 & rated 92 points: Unfortunately a bit of a disappointment as the 2024 new year drink. Promising "loaded" nose with dark blackcurrant tones, but also vanilla/strawberry, flintstones, a little concrete, hints of vegetables / cabbage, not fully balanced but definitely promising. On the palate, despite a few hours of oxygenation, light, sour and short in comparison. None of the mouth coating long finishes some other Conseillantes deliver... enjoyable, but definitely not at a good QPR point for drinking right now. (1912 views) | | | Tasted by Cailles on 10/2/2023 & rated 94 points: 20 Vintages of La Conseillante (1947-2020): All wines tasted blind. I have had many beautiful Conseillantes in the past, but in this tasting the wines did not shine as expected. A few thoughts: A) Conseillante is a seductive, sensual wine, not unlike more Bordeaux-esque Napa Valley wines. In fact, it reminded me a lot of Opus One, with the blue and black forest berry aromas found in almost every vintage. B) The fruit is ripe, but never too ripe. But only in the cooler years (and 2020) is the fruit perfectly pure and fresh. C) Even in the newer vintages, the (luxurious) oak notes are still present and will need some time to be fully absorbed. D) My biggest problem (and the group had the same one) was that almost all of the newer vintages showed alcohol notes that weren't noticeable en primeur or in the Arrivage tastings (and the wines were served at a perfect temperature or rather a little too cold). E) There were some beautiful wines, complex and seductive, but La Conseillante is not a wine for classic Bordeaux or Left Bank lovers. Conseillante is the hot one-night stand, not the elegant and intellectually appealing wine I want to drink every day. F) The best wine was the 2020 (96pts, the only score above 95pts), confirming my impression that it is a better, less ripe Bordeaux vintage than 2019.
TN: A bit muted nose. Quite ripe, even some alcohol notes. On the palate there is ripe dark fruit and not as much definition. But there is a lot of temporarily suppressed substance here and the structure was fine with ripe, round tannins, good tension, good acidity and freshness and an overall good balance. Like many 2016s, this is currently in a dump phase and does not show that good. Still, this was 93/94pts
Decanting: The bottle was opened a few hours before consumption but not decanted. This bottle would have needed three to four hours in a decanter but I doubt that it is the right time to open a bottle right now. (2708 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 10/2/2023 & rated 94 points: 20-vintage La Conseillante vertical (Fribourg): Part of a 20 vintage vertical (key takeaways in the tasting story). Ripe and concentrated but not overly extracted red cherry fruit. Leather and a bit of tobacco as well as some graphite minerality. Red flowers. Densely packed palate, juicy and vibrant with plenty of acidity which was needed to balance the tannin. Maybe a bit of an abrupt finish. Can’t ignore a bit of heat here as well. Added a notch or so in complexity over the last couple of years and definitely one of the more pleasing vintages in the line-up. (2265 views) | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 9/29/2023 & rated 96 points: Chateau La Conseillante 1947-2020 tasted blind: Discrete nose, needed some swirling and coaxing. Dark fruit, subtle earthy aromas. Very good palate, medium bodied, precise. Great potential, but don't open before 2032. (2908 views) | | | Tasted by watcheslover on 3/19/2023 & rated 99 points: The nose is delicate, fruity, with an inimitable floral signature of violet. Great finesse of expression. It has a slender shape, it is a very nuanced wine, with a magical luscious flesh and an absolutely superb fruity tannin. A model of finesse. The best ever, superior to 2005, 2019 and 2020. (4998 views) | | | Tasted by ashawswim20 on 1/14/2023 & rated 95 points: On the nose: raspberry, strawberry, graphite/pencil shavings, vanillin, light sweetness of a jam.
On the palate out of the bottle Strawberry, blueberry, vanilla, stone, green oakiness.
20 minutes in the glass: acidic blueberry and raspberry balances out the silky tannins and heat that is still on the wine. Slight bitterness reminiscent of chocolate. Pencil shaving. Very long strawberry finish. At least 15 seconds.
30 Min decant w/French onion soup. More acidity and strawberry is almost candy-like with deep earthy flavors lingering on the finish but still cool. Finish lasts forever. Texture like a 2% milk, not quite whole milk!
60 minute decant after a Broccoli Parmesan dish: gained even more balance with all the above integrated to a harmonious wine. Gained a bit of a savory note and dropped the greenness. Absolutely singing. Drink it after an hour decant in my opinion.
Updating throughout the night… (3353 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 6/28/2022 & rated 95 points: Château La Conseillante dinner & Kabinett tasting (Groot-Ammers, Netherlands): Ex-Château. A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, 14% ABV. Expressive nose, more complexity and spicy depth than the 2017, grenadine and peonies said Mariëlle Cazaux, richly textured but elegant palate, real elegance and finesse, already approachable, perfect balance, excellent resonance and length. A great wine, great future. (5679 views) | | | Tasted by KPB on 9/29/2021 & rated 96 points: Needs a full 24 hours to open up. I didn’t splash decant, but I did try it on day one and on day two, and the difference was huge. Don’t cheat yourself… give it time to breath!
Very dark, with a limpid appearance and a rich texture. Nose showing cassis fruit, graphite, floral notes, and bare hints of what will someday be an elegant, spicy nose. Those future spices are also apparent on the palate, which is a bit closed now but already revealing the future promise of the bottle. Today, maybe 94 (my wife says 92) if you give it ample air. But at peak in about ten years, easily a 96pt bottle. (5759 views) | | | Tasted by Cailles on 9/4/2021 & rated 94 points: Bordeaux 2016 - 5 Years On - 8 Top Reds: All wines tasted single blind. This tasting proved again that 2016 is an amazing vintage. Compared to many other recent vintages, the 2016s show no excess in any category (especially beneficial for right banks these days) but wines that are still fully ripe. The aromatic complexity and precision are off the charts and structural frames are luxurious. Compared to the more solar 2015s wines we tasted last year, the 2016s will need more time to integrate and open up and might be a tad less charming at this point, but the potential is immense. Group winner was an incredible Ausone, ahead of the Pichon Lalande and an incredible and singular Montrose (which for me was a tied #1 with the Ausone).
TN: Expressive on the nose and palate with layers of fine, ripe but still fresh red and dark red fruit, lots of spices, some minerality and herbs. I like the freshness and precision, the purity of fruit a lot. A wall of fine tannins and a high freshness and an already nicely creamy structure but overall light feel. This is very promising but was a bit wild and not yet perfectly integrated but I guess this will easily hit the 95-97 pts category once mature.
Decanting: Decanted for two hours. Probably it would have needed even a bit more air (or less, I haven‘t tasted it upon opening).
Group rank: #6 out of 8 wines
Group score: 94.7 pts (7906 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 8/12/2021 & rated 93 points: Bordeaux 2016 5-years on: Small horizontal of Bordeaux 2016 five years on. We tasted 8 wines in total from 4 appellations with 2 each in every flight. The setting was single-blind. All wines were at least double-decanted. Top performers were Ausone, Pichon Lalande and Figeac, making St Emilion the best performing appellation. Pomerol, on the other hand (VCC, Conseillante) didn't shine. St Estèphe was surprisingly ready. Pauillac felt early, but incredibly structured. We kicked off with a Selosse Substance and finished with Yquem 2013 and I also snuck in a Pichon Baron 1923. Ranking of all wines included in the tasting story.
Tasting note:
Red cherry fruit – intense, jammy and polished in character. Lead and pencil shavings. Dense and incredibly structured but as with the VCC right next to it in the flight harmony was not really the strong suite. I do see amazing potential, but really best to cellar for at least 5 more years. (5435 views) | | | Tasted by savowood on 7/28/2020 & rated 99 points: Super long. (7018 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 1/29/2020 & rated 95 points: (Mostly) Burgundy Dinner with Friends (Marino - Los Angeles CA): Served double blind. First time tasting this wine. Clearly Bordeaux varietals, but I struggled thinking it Bordeaux given an intrinsic sweetness alongside all the richness, stuffing and density. Once told it is Bordeaux, I knew it had to be 2016...it is just that great already. And right bank given it’s Merlot-driven sexy curves. Not a wine that lets you appreciate and contemplate its full potential and complexity, but darn yummy now. And clearly a great wine for 2030-2060 or so. (7717 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 11/22/2019 & rated 94 points: Tasted blind. Decanted approx. 1-2h. Wooden box flavours with a ripe, rather dark and ripe fruit with a seasoning of baking spices. Intense. Velvety, finely textured palate, slightly bitter though. Otherwise fruity, dense and heavy, a bit of heat. Once revealed I must admit I was slightly disappointed given my fabulous memory when first tasted. Maybe too much of a decant we wondered around the table? Or going into a bad phase - in which case best to tuck this away for a good while. (6159 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 9/26/2019 & rated 100 points: Spell-binding in every sense of the word, you know this wine is a future legend from the initial sniff of its delicate floral, truffle, dark cherry and cocoa infused perfume. Silk and velvet-textured, ripe, sweet, fresh fruits with a beautiful sense of purity hit you next. The finish keeps all its themes going. This is an incredibly sexy bottle of wine that belongs in every Pomerol fans cellars. Give it perhaps 12 years of sleep and it should start revealing its true potential at that point. (7802 views) | | | Tasted by Elpaninaro on 5/27/2019: Pop and pour, then revisited regularly for 5 hours. Checked in one last time 24 hours after opening from remains poured into a half bottle and sealed overnight with about a 1 inch airspace.
very deep purple-red color, an aggressive nose showing largely undeveloped primary fruit, cool and with some sweet notes- but fruit covering both the red and black sides of the spectrum, dark petals, on the palate at first a full-bodied intense wave of crushed raspberries, blackberry notes, hints of chocolate, but closed on the mid-palate, substantial yet very silky tannins, fine long finish with marble streaks and firm acids, with time cassis notes developed as well as plums and more sweet blackberry notes, the wine fleshed out even further- amazingly- showing itself to be a wine of formidable scale by La Conseillante standards, but even as it developed throughout the evening always that racy intensity of crushed raspberries remained at the core, despite the scale this is not a terribly generous wine at present- as the wine aired a sort of closed mass developed in the mid-palate, it was not overly hard or indicative of any excesses- but rather this mass is reminiscent of that closed ball of fruit wrapped in chalk and tannin that sometimes comes with a Musigny or Clos de la Roche when it is shut down, the oak makes a small appearance but is already being well absorbed into the overall structure, the following evening the wine had opened further- a profusion of violet notes on the nose along with chocolate notes and cassis, on the palate still a very large wine but thoroughly velvety, the core is still closed but more sedate now, knockout finish, this is a really big La Conseillante- but everything is in proper balance and if that tight little core of fruit in the middle explodes in time as it has in vintages past then we are in for a real treat when this matures, I will need to try more 2016s to know whether the departures from the norm are driven more by vintage or by the change in the winemaking team- but for now, as is the case at Chateau Palmer, this appears to be one of those happy cases where change is on balance for the better, as longtime fans know- La Conseillante has historically had a habit of seeming rather tame at release only to start getting unexpectedly complex and exciting around age 10, so I think it will be a decade before we see what is really going to come of this- but the potential here is thrilling to consider. If the scale of this is preserved and the usual progression takes place on top of that, I could see this being a vintage of historic importance at La Conseillante.
(*****), 2031+, but I certainly think it worthwhile to check in on this at around age 10. That is when the 1998 started to really get exciting. (7116 views) | | | Tasted by Laschtig on 3/14/2019 & rated 98 points: «Châteu La Conseillante»-Tasting @ Arvi, 14. March 2019
Tasting was set at Arvi showroom in Zürich; a stylish, modern, upscale lieu de plaisir, run by a smart, cautious and professional, yet welcoming and inviting crew. It was a very nice evening, with a charming host and Mme Directrice herself as special guest – a most enchanting special guest, I’d like to emphazise.
We were fortunate enough to savor the following beauties, all of which were excellent:
Château La Conseillante, 2016:
One of the best vintages ever produced at Château La Conseillante (go figure), this dark, intense wine is a 80% Merlot / 20% Cabarnet Franc split with an almost nappaesque feel to it. Fruit is concentrated and penetrating, i.e. pretty darn awesome. My guess is the merlot provided the black cherry and the cabarnet franc the haws.
However, compared to the voluptuous Nappa IG-model wines, you’ll find cooler stylistics here, more subdued and seductive rather than teasing. This provides an avenue for a certain minerality (apparently this isn’t an English word, but I like and will use it nonetheless). Which in turn adds to the complexity and enjoyment.
Once this wine develops more secondary and in particular tertiary aromas, I think you’ll have an opus magnum (double pun point for me) on your hands. All things considered, I’ll go up to a whopping 98+.
Château La Conseillante, 2009:
A similar split as the 2016 (81%/19%) this is driven by darker flavors, like cassis, licorice, violet. Strong but in no way primitive. There are three things that let 2009 stand out: The incredibly silky tannins which are so well integrated, they truly melt once put them in your facehole. And then, again, the minerality, which, in my book, was very strong for a red, but again, not brute or violent but instead providing a phenomenal structure. And third, there were hints of almonds to be found, which was surprising and kinda cool. Minerality is the real MVP here. And it helps to reach 96 points.
Château La Conseillante, 2005:
I felt like this was Mme Directrices personal favorite; and who am I to argue? To me, it had a similar quality and structure to 2016 but of course more subdued, more secondary and in particular tertiary aromas like truffle, forest berries (again, is this an English word? Waldbeeren is what I’m going for) and soubois (or sottobosco in Italian, as I learned and which has a nice ring to it). Since the winemaker liked it so much, I’ll quote: “what makes the 2005 vintage stand out is all the balances have been ratcheted up: more sugar, more colour, more acidity, more tannins”. More of everything. But not more points than 2016. I’ll go with 97.
Château La Conseillante, 2001:
Fruit was almost completely gone here, in my very humble opinion, winemaker said it was still fresh though, so I’d trust her, not me. To me it was a bit unspectacular, a little watery, cause the absence of fruit did not coincide with strong tertiary aromas. Pleasant, sure, and some might prefer this to the more bootylicious vintages, but to me this was lacking (in comparison, it is obviously still a top wine). The blurb reads great though: “Bright, garnet robe. Wonderfully complex, the nose sports cherry, violet and animal notes The attack on the palate is smooth and fruity, but then elegant tannins take over to make it bigger. The finish is mellow, concluding with the first notes of evolution, such as leather.” Meh. I’ll go with 92 points.
Château La Conseillante, 1995:
Now we are entering what I’d call old Bordeaux, you know, stable, saddle, humid earth and smoky oak. Suave, good length and well-integrated tannins but maybe already a bit of birrewegge (ok, this one is not to be translated, “pear pastry” is too weird, even for me) and perhaps even a hint of oxidation. I think this one is almost gone and its touches of tabacco and cedar couldn’t save it. Unlike the German flak, this has no armor-piercing capacities. But like the German flak, this is an 88.
Château La Conseillante, 1990 (magnum):
Clearly better than 1995 in my book. Very tertiary but not gone, not birreweg and not maggi. Instead, and this was a nice surprise for me cause I haven’t really identified this flavor as precise before, I tasted Coca-Cola. Like, not canned or bottled Coke but rather McDonalds syrup(py) Coke. So a bit sweeter, a bit staler. Have you ever had those bonbons formed like a frog that taste like Coke. Kinda like that. Neal Marti compared it to 1989 and wrote: “It will never quite match the 1989, but hey, don’t hold that against this beauty.” Going with the flow, I’ll give 89 (instead of the 90 it probably deserves) points.
Château La Conseillante 1985 and 1982 (both magnum) :
The crowd was very pleased with these two, impressed even and they seemed to give quite the ratings. I finna be honest tho, I was getting tipsy at this point and my focus shifted from subtle appreciation to where can I dance, please? So I withhold any further commentary and rating and finish with the conclusion, that La Conseillante is an impressive Pomerol Chateau with a history as rich as their wines are amazeballs. 10/10, would visit.
What we talked about:
The discussion was led by the host and the winemaker (and very well led at that) and revolved around the minutiae and intricacies of wine making in Pomerol, which I enjoyed – and learned from - a lot. My favorite tidbit was when la Directrice told us, that her first teacher wouldn’t let her near the wine cellar cause “women turn wine into vinegar”. I lol’d at that, not only cause she obviously is such a fantastic talent but moreso, cause this was what.. 20 years ago max? But it feels like something from an era where stegosaurus roamed the earth. Time really has different ways of passing.
Also, I would like to meet that dude, just for shits and giggles. (4699 views) | | | Tasted by Cailles on 3/14/2019 & rated 97 points: La Conseillante 1982-2016: Vertical of eight vintages from four decades with winemaker Marielle Cazaux. While it might not come as a surprise that the Conseillante impresses with its seductiveness, the level of freshness and tension in all wines is remarkable. Unsurprisingly, the four best wines came all from great vintages: The 2016 stands above all the other wines and is a future star and so good to drink right now, the 2009 needed time but became better by the minute and came in close second, the 2005 is fantastic with so much intense tertiary aromatics and precision and the 1990 is in a great spot and better than the Mouton or Lynch Bages I had in the past few weeks.
TN: This is a fantastic wine! I had it a few days earlier at a larger Bordeaux 2016 merchant tasting and liked it (95 points) but this bottle was a clear step-up. The main difference was certainly that the wine at this dinner was served at the perfect drinking temperature whereas the former bottle was served too warm and therefore felt much more opulent. On the nose expressive red fruit (cherries, rose hip, strawberry candy), herbs and wet slate. Ripe but highly precise, cool, and balanced. On the palate some additional layers with dark soil and rocky minerality, inky notes, hints of smoke and some fine and well integrated oak scents accompanying all the fruit. Not yet as complex as the 2009 or other 2016s (such as the Pichon Lalande) but very seductive and highly elegant (much more so than a few days earlier) with a perfect acidity and silky tannins.
Decanting: The wine has not been decanted but opened an hour prior to consumption. As it improved with more time in the glass, I think one or two hours in the decanter could do good things. (7126 views) | | | Tasted by NostraBacchus on 3/9/2019 & rated 96 points: Tasted @ bigger Bordeaux 2016 arrivage tasting.
This was one of the biggest wines of the tasting, which came a little as a surprise after reading some of the professional critic's reviews. Today there was not much subtlety here, but instead a flamboyant, full-throttle, powerful wine with a deep core of fruit, sweet plum, blackberry liquor, lavender, truffle, smoke, dark chocolate and spices. Full-bodied, dense and authoritative, with medium-high excellent tannin and pretty high acidity providing the counterpoint to the richness. Excellent length. The stuffing and structure are excellent, at the moment there is almost a little too much of everything but I would give this 8-10 years to shed off the baby fat. What's underneath is pretty stunning. (4162 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 3/9/2019 & rated 96 points: Arvi Bordeaux 2016 Arrivage (Park Hyatt, Zurich): A darker fruit profile than expected with an herbal / dried tea leaves overlay and hints of liquorice and vanilla. Great tension and multi-layered texture. Ultra-fine tannins make for a great sensation on the palate already now. (5228 views) | | | Tasted by Cailles on 3/9/2019 & rated 95 points: Bordeaux 2016 II: A second look at the 2016 confirmed my inital assessment from a tasting back in November: a) they‘re very deep, b) with perfectly ripe, fine tannins, c) a very good, well-integrated acidity and d) an incredible balance and elegance even at this young stage also thanks to a low(er) alcohol level (compared to 2009 or 2015). They‘re outerwordly good and a lot of the wines tasted were quite accessible. In my opinion, they‘re clearly ahead of the 2015 vintage (better, i.e. lower ripeness level; lower alcohol; more elegance). Best wine today was the Leoville Las Cases (98+) on par with the Pichon Comtesse back in November. Honorable mentions for the Figeac (97+), Carmes Haut Brion (96+), the Pape Clement (best ever at 95+) and an again singular Yquem (97+).
Short TN: Dark cherries, sweet strawberries getting more intense by the minute, fresh herbs, sweet oak notes. Probably the most opulent and outgoing with big but fine tannins and a good freshness. Almost Napaesque. As sexy as a young Bordeaux can get. 95+. (5895 views) | | | Tasted by englishman's claret on 3/8/2019 & rated 95 points: Plummy, inky, violet-tinged nose; surprisingly masculine structure - very tannic though not unbalanced. 95+ (4362 views) | | | Tasted by curtr on 3/7/2019 & rated 95 points: One of the top two wines at the Gordon 2016 tasting in Boston. Great balance, great potential, drinking now, yet wait 10-15 years to allow to character to develop. (3031 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 2/25/2019 & rated 94 points: Amsterdam UGCB Tasting and Winemakers' Dinner (Beurs van Berlage / Café De Klepel): Really showing its feminine side this year, floral, creamy, refined, many layers, tannins wrapped in flesh, very good resonance and length. Really beautiful, but a score of 99 points is just ridiculous. Sorry Jeff. (4249 views) | | | Tasted by Zweder on 2/25/2019 & rated 96 points: UCGB tasting Bordeaux 2016 (Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam.): For me personally one of the very best wines of the tasting. Full bodied, luxurious and elegant. Ripe fruits and beautifully dosed oak. 95 - 96+ (3813 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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| Château La Conseillante Producer website - Read more about Chateau La ConseillanteRed 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."
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"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..?Pomerol Wikipedia | French wine guide - Read about Pomerol |
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