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“Astral de Château Puybarbe 2015 has ripe bramble and cassis on the nose combined with some mint as well as vanillin and spice from the oak-aging. Delicious full-bodied wine with abundant fruit and soft acidity, but still quite grippy tannins. There’s complexity of aromas and taste that will improve with further aging. “
Rating 16/20
Bettane+Desseauve 2018 Guide
Wine Information
Côtes de Bourg - 2015 Our second medium-bodied wine, Same parcels, same blend as Le Roc but aging with French oak staves for 11 months.
Blend: Merlot 88% - Cabernet Sauvignon 12% with small percentages of Malbec and Cabernet Franc. 2015 vintage won the Gold Medal in Concours International de Lyon.
Vintage 2016
Bordeaux 2016 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 haven't been this excited about the prospects of wines this young since the remarkable 2009 and 2010 vintages. At that time, China was at the zenith of its extraordinary rise of fine wines where the highest estates, particularly Château Lafite , had become a backwater currency. Each man a...
