2016 Château Croix de Labrie

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  4/22/2023 - chatters wrote:

  En Primeur campaign for the 2022 vintage Day One (Bordeaux): Plums over slight blackcurrant cordial and, with time, a little red berried note, plenty of oaky spice. In the mouth it's juicy, fresh, fleshy, broad with floury textured drying tannins, slight tarragon, those black fruits; plums; blackcurrant, slightly woody flavours and some non-intrusive alcohol warmth on the long finish. A sense of concentration and breadth, it's a bit on the big side for me.

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  4/25/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  The spicy nose comes along with flowers, incense, black with blue fruit and toasty oak. Rich, full and concentrated, the wine is fresh, structured, bright and filled with soft, polished dark red fruits. But this seems to be holding on to its adolescence for a bit longer than anticipated. So give it 3-4 more years in the bottle and it should soften and better integrate.

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  9/21/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  Licorice, dark chocolate, plums and smoke help create a plush, silky, polished, velvet textured wine, focusing on layers of dark chocolate covered, smoky plums and espresso. This is a very good wine but it is going to take some time for the oak to fully integrate into the wine, so wqt at least 5-7 years before opening a bottle. The wine is made from a final blend of 95% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon,.

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  2/16/2019 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points

  Tasted blind. This is one of the Jean-Marc Quarin outsider wines. Punches significantly above its classification. Excellent structure, discrete toast, earthy aromas, very good freshness like in all 2016.

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  4/29/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  Quite floral, with truffle, licorice, cocoa, black cherry, smoke and plum notes. The plush, polished, supple textured wine blends freshness with juicy, ripe, soft fruits. The wine is made from a blend of 92% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon, reaching 14.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.49.

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