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  • Country ranking ?

    1 594
  • Producer ranking ?

    16
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2025-2040
  • Food Pairing

    Entrecôte grillée, Roasted duck & sauteed beef

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The Story

Blend: 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon

Origin: Moulis en Médoc

Plantation density: 6,600 vines/hectare (1m x 1.5m)

Vineyard age: 30 years

Vineyard area: 33 hectares

Soil type: Clay-limestone

Ageing period: 16 months

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Wine Information

James Suckling (2/2019) 93 points

"Bright and fresh on the nose with crushed cherry and berry character. The palate is medium bodied with firm and fine, velvety tannins and a flavorful finish. A blend of 80 per cent merlot and 20 per cent cabernet sauvignon. Better after 2021."

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Vintage 2016

2016 Bordeaux in Review  “A Paradox”

by Andrew Caillard MW

The 2016 Bordeaux vintage will be remembered as one of the great years of the 21st Century. I have not been so excited about the prospects of such young wines since the remarkable back-to-back 2009 and 2010 vintages. At that time China was at the zenith of its extraordinary fine wine ascendency where the very top estates, particularly Chateau Lafite, had become a baksheesh curren...

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Origin

Listrac, Bordeaux

Drinking temperature

17-18C
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