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  • Country ranking ?

    1 582
  • Producer ranking ?

    9
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    from 2020
  • Food Pairing

    roast leg of lamb

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The Story

At Chantegrive the quest for quality revolves around a few simple ideas: firstly, great respect for the soil in order to maintain the right soil/plant balance, and secondly, a perfect mastery of the production in order to realize the full potential of the terroir. 

The soil : grassing over the soil is essential in order to encourage a good level of microbial activity and also to improve soil structure. The nutritional elements incorporated ...

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Vintage 2015

Full report of Bordeaux 2015 by Andrew Caillard MW “Next in line in a great series of vintages; 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2015.

 

2015 is a wonderful Bordeaux vintage without the hype or hysteria associated with 2009 and 2010. The wines are generally expressive and generous with wonderful concentration and structure. Given another year in barrel, the wines should gain more complexity and fruit volume. Châteaux, in all sub-regions, are e...

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Full plum, intense nose, touch of menthol, plenty of fresh fruit too. The

palate is soft with ample fruity texture covering the tannins very well.

88-90/100 2020-2030

  • 90p
Medium deep colour. Lead penci, cedar, cassis aromas. Elderberry, cassis lead pencil, graphite flavours, attractive mid palate volume and buoyancy, fine sinewy tanins. Builds up soupy/brambly dry. 88 points
  • 88p
Dark purple red with violet hue. Pleasant nose with fine fruit, ripe berries and hints of berry jam. On the palate well structured medium length, fine fruit and balanced tannins.
  • 87p
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Origin

Graves, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Extraordinary
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