2018 Château Petit Village

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  6/21/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 Points

  Amsterdam UGCB Tasting (Amstel Boathouse, Amsterdam, NL): All things considering, this is a bit dull. It’s big and ripe, but it’s solid rather than exciting, with grippy tannins. Its terroir deserves better.

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  6/21/2021 - FransS wrote: 93 Points

  The 2018 UGCB tasting Amsterdam 6/21/2021 (Amsterdam, Amstel Boathouse): Friendly, spicy, juicy, in the finish firm tannins; all together a very nice wine.

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  3/9/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points

  Better in the bottle than in barrel, the wine now shows more of a floral character. Fresh, soft and silky, with a luscious texture and layers of sweet, ripe, vibrant, elegant fruits. The finish, with its minty-fresh wave of cherries really clings to your palate. This is the finest vintage of Petit Village I recall tasting. The wine blends 72% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon. Give it 4-5 years of age and it will be a much better wine.

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  1/26/2021 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Bordeaux 2018 from bottle (Bordeaux and Strasbourg): A grand success. At 14.3% alcohol with fine balancing freshness and acidity: much coming from the 30% Cabernet Franc picked from vines on deep clay. For director Diana Berrouet Garcia, 2018 is her best vintage since she began in 2015: “2018 has less obvious alcohol (and more acidity) than 2015, and more density than 2019 and 2016”, she remarked. Indeed, the wine shows concentration; the berries were very concentrated at harvest with some juice lost due to "evaporation", she said. The final blend of 72% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon has a juicy, rounded mid palate with depth, leading to a clean, pure, bright, fruit driven finish. The tannin is already sur mesure so just 40% new oak was used to age the wine. It will be interesting to compare the 2019 with the 2018. "I agree we have greater freshness in 2019, but I think we have more substance in 2018," Berrouet Garcia remarks, "and I think it will be a better vintage in five years." 3.7 pH. Full notes in wine-chronicles.com

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  7/3/2019 - rossi.wine wrote: 92 Points

  Tasted next to their 2015. Ripe red and dark fruit, spices, liquorice, cocoa powder on the nose. Full and ripe on the palate with good acidity, polished tannins and good length. Very good, but not great. 91-92+

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