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  • Country ranking ?

    1 314
  • Producer ranking ?

    17
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Beef

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The Story

In time, the vines planted in 1985 are now providing a choice in plot selection. Conventional tillage and handpicking are jealously maintained. More rigorous each year, the wine is surrounded resources and the most modern aids. Penetrates the grapes in a vat which allows perfect control of fermentations. Livestock cellars are fully air conditioned.
Efforts now focus on the vine. The experience gained during 30 years of practice brings a maste...

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Vintage 2005

Bordeaux Vintage Report 2005 is a truly fantastic vintage with great quality across the board on both the Left and Right Banks.

The 2005 vintage became the most anticipated since 2000. The early market was heated and prices skyrocketed. The cold winter delayed bud break before the warm, dunny spring broke through. Even the vegetative growth and flowering gave a perfect start to the vintage. The summer turned out to be one of the driest ever...

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Tasted in January 2024. It's a nicely crafted wine with a light body and flavors of raspberries and cherries. It has a well-structured, complex palate with a fruity, delicious, and charming finish. A bit four-squared, but tasty and seductive.

  • 90p

Typical classic opening of cassis and char. This wine took a long time to open but eventually did, at least aromatically.

Medium weight palate with polished tannins. Overall a structure that is still clinging to its 2005 power base. Moderate density and richness but impeccable balance with the acidity further shoring up the tannic structure. 

Second nose after 30 minutes in the glass reveals a more savoury complexion, new leather and a whiff of dried sausage providing ample complexity. The fruit spectrum turns spicy and a touch jammy.

Overall classic for its type with the aroamtics revealing themselves nicely. Solid architecture but yet to finds its groove. Still needs a little time, 5-10 years.

  • 93p
Deep ruby. Cassis, almost a raspberry touch, vanilla and white chocolate. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, elegant texture, ripe yet elegant. Good length.
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Saint-Julien, Bordeaux
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