- 91 points -
(Vintage 2014)What a texture with this wine with dark chocolate, mineral and loads of fruit. So impressive. Loads going on. Big surprise. New wine for me.
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Grand Vin
2014
$27.25
Family vineyard since 1908 transmitting generations of the same desire for innovation. The winery was rebuilt in 2009 with small concrete tanks for a vinification by plots. Extraction by punching down (gravity) helps to bring elegance and silky to the wine. This, associated with low yield, offers high quality wines at a very affordable price. Under Muriel Rousseau-Revaire supervision, Stéphane Derenoncourt has been following this property since 2010, aware of the potential of this atypical...
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The flagship wine of the property is made with the utmost care from a high quality plot selection. Merlot (90%), historic grape variety in Bordeaux is blended with Malbec (10%), typical grape variety in Blaye and historic at Chateau Magdeleine-Bouhou.
By plot, with alcoholic fermentation in little concrete vat with thermoregulation. We proceed to soft pigeage to optimize extractions.
Young, it can be decanted before to drink it. Or open the bottle 1 or 2 hours before, in order to aerate the wine. 17-18° C for a better expression of the finesse of the tannins while preserving the fruit.
What a texture with this wine with dark chocolate, mineral and loads of fruit. So impressive. Loads going on. Big surprise. New wine for me.
See detailed press reviewJoli vin, étonnamment tendre et ample, avec des arômes expressifs de fruits compotés et une allonge de grande sève.
See detailed press reviewFrom a high-quality plot, 90% Merlot, 10% Malbec. 35-year-old vines on clay and limestone. Yield 40.5 hl/ha. No herbicides. Fermented in small concrete vats with soft pigeage. 12-14 months in French oak barrels, 30% new. 50,000 bottles made. Consultant Stéphane Derenoncourt.
To begin with much more closed on the nose than the gregarious Boha; blackcurrant leaf, rather than berry. With a bit of time, crushed elderberry begins to emerge, sweet and bitter and dark. Dry and leafy, with the lightest pencil sketch of dark fruit. As with the nose, elderberry dominates with its almost medicinal play across dark bitter-sweetness, something slightly liquorice, and more than a streak of green. Fine, shapely tannins but on the whole very lean. If you like your bordeaux on the austere side…