2020 Château La Gurgue

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  11/1/2023 - Eric Becker Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This looks like a winner in 2020! Surprisingly complex on the nose with violets, licorice, some meaty and cedary scents and sweet dark fruits. In the mouth the wine is typical for the Villars-Lurton stable: Elegantly medium-bodied but quite intense, nicely textured and persistent, effortlessly natural, fresh and also quite structured. In fact, the wine reminds me a lot of Chateau Ferriere, in a lesser way, but only slightly so. I can't think of more Margaux for the money?!

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  6/27/2023 - Invest wrote: 88 Points

  PnP, from 0.375l bottle, 13% Alc., deep purple red color.
  
  Nose: Charming red and violet fruit impression
  
  Palate: Clearly less wood used than the previously drunk Malartic. So more charming. Other than that, everything is so-so. Nothing really bad - but nothing exciting either. Drinking pleasure at the moment about 88 Pts.

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  5/14/2021 - Shrewsram Likes this wine: 92 Points

  59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29% Merlot, 12% Petit Verdot
  30hl/ha (42-45 is the norm)
  From 40% to 20% new wood now, and shorter elevage in oak.
  Organic and biodynamic certified, since 2018
  
  Deep/mid ruby
  Good nose: pretty, some graphite/pencil shaving definition, very fine toast and a cool, fresh quality of cassis and black raspberry.
  
  Good concentration and intensity, offers up some chunky dark fruit, crisper red fruits, a little spice. Big, soft, chalky grip, lovely acidity – plenty of oomph and charm, and elegance too.

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