2016 Château Les Grands Chênes

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  1/20/2024 - JCherniak Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Dark ruby red. Blue fruits and blackberry nose. Medium body with the same fruits, and some spice. The finish is cloves.

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  12/11/2022 - lpettet Likes this wine: 89 Points

  I liked this wine, which I had by itself and with some grilled pork. Medium body, medium strength of flavor, dark in color, short lingering taste. Would get again.

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  5/7/2022 - MikeyQue wrote: 91 Points

  Truly classic flavors for this sun $20 Medoc Bordeaux. Ruby-brown but still a slight sense of freshness in the glass. Great balance of tart fruit, gravel, and acid/tannins. Need quite a bit to open up - decanted for 45 minutes and still got better throughout the night. Past it’s prime by night 2. Great left bank bargain.

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  4/17/2020 - Joe the Critic wrote: 86 Points

  Upon revisiting this wine, I'm lowering my score. The tannins are a bit rustic, and the fruit is lacking -- I guess that's a risk with Medoc wines (as opposed to Haut Medoc). It's fine for a weeknight wine, but given the vintage, it should have been better.

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  3/21/2020 - Willi Vinotti Does not like this wine: 83 Points

  Grands chenes used to be a terrific value. Like the 2003, it was like a Pape Clement “en miniature”, though slightly more balanced... now, the 2016 vintage seems far from these happy days. Still a nice wine, recognizable medoc, it is quite lean, rather on the astringent side. The wine is thus in contradiction with the packaging, as the label and heavy bottle hint at placing this up market... rather disappointingly commercial effort by Magrez.

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