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  • Country ranking ?

    1 032
  • Producer ranking ?

    35
  • Decanting time

    4h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    Beef Tenderloin with Shitake Mushrooms and Crisp Rosemary Potatoes

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The Story

Vintage after vintage, the wines of Château Palmer express our vision of an exceptional wine. We believe that it is born of the mysterious trilogy – terroir, history, memory – and all of our efforts are concentrated on bringing it into the world. Distinction, high standards and commitment are the values that guide every choice we make from the vineyard to the table where the wine is served.


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Wine Information

Characteristics of the vintage 2008
After a mild and dry late winter season, budburst was delayed by a cold spell that set in from mid-March to late April. A very rainy month of May ended with a hail storm that hit the south of the Médoc, including a few Château Palmer plots, which added to the stress that the vine was undergoing. Flowering took place in June under particularly unfavorable conditions of cool, rainy weather, which caused wides...

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Latest Pro-tasting notes

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Tasting note

color

Medium, Ruby red and Clear

ending

Long and Round

flavors

Earthy, Tobacco, Truffles, Cassis and Spice

nose

Intense, Complex and Refined

recommend

Yes

taste

Average in Acidity, Warming, Medium tannin, Balanced, Developing, Medium-bodied, Round, Harmonious, Elegant and Silky tannins

Verdict

Sophisticated and Excellent

Written Notes

Good looking normal size bottle and has by the neck level. Colour is ruby red, and looking clear and medium. On the nose it is mature, intense, complex and refined. The taste is full, round,voluptuous, elegant, warming, with medium tannin, with silky tannins, and average in acidity, medium-bodied, with balanced structure and developing. On the palate it is layered and has cassis, tobacco, spice, truffles and earthy flavours. The finish is long and round. This wine is sophisticated and excellent. I paid around 200-500€ a bottle. Perfectly stored bottles are still very worthy and will last well for another 10-15 years. Too expensive for quality. I do recommend.

  • 94p

Tasted three times - last time in May 2014. Consistent notes. More of everything here compared with 2006. Sappy, riper fruit with a lot of sweetness. Complex, refined and long finish. Great intensity of dark cherries on the nose and palate. Stylish wine with great depth and structure. Petit Verdot was included in the blend and it shows – strong backbone. Great effort for the vintage and this wine will keep for a long time.

  • 96p
Deep ruby. Violets, cassis, blackcurrants leaf, feels exotic for Palmer. Smooth palate, fresh acidity, more lively than last bottle, ripe tannins, very elegant texture. Hugely enjoyable, starting to flit. Long.
  • 94p
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Information

Origin

Margaux, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Above Average

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None

Inside Information

www.erobertparker.com, Neal Martin, 01/20/2012
« Tasted ex-château and single blind in Southwold. Two bottles of Château Palmer were opened. It has a very sophisticated, but slightly broody bouquet with blackberry cassis, graphite and a little more earthiness than I recall. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine delineation, tightly knit with superb focus and sense of harmony. Crisp, sinewy and multi-faceted, this is a great Palmer for the vintage and a serious contender for the best wine of the appellation. Bravo. Tasted January 2012. »

THE GREAT SOUTHWOLD TASTING , Bill Blatch, 01/01/2011
« De couleur très jeune et intense, en milieu de bouche très mûr de fruit Merlot quoique montrant de grandes notes florales, légèrement « chocolat sur-mûr » mais en même temps avec une structure de tannins extrêmement fins. »

Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar, Ian D'Agata, 05/15/2009
« Full, bright ruby-red. Perfumed, sexy aromas of red cherry, plum and flowers. Suave on entry, then sweet but gripping in the middle, with integrated acids giving terrific definition and thrust to the complex, creamy flavors of red berries, minerals and sweet spices.
A truly seamless and almost weightless wine, finishing pure and very long. »
 

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