Clos Fourtet 2020

2020  Clos Fourtet St. Émilion Grand Cru Dark garnet in color, the wine gets your attention quickly with its licorice, smoke, dark cocoa, chalk and plummy aromas. Pure silk and velvet on the palate, with a fabulous sense of purity in the fruits, lift, length, richness, concentration and minerality. This is clearly a top vintage for Clos Fourtet that will age for decades. The wine was made from blending 90% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.5% ABV. 96-98  Pts

Clos Fourtet – this wine was big, opulent and voluminous. Concentrated with a strong backbone. You can’t question the excellent quality of this wine, but… For me, it’s too modern, too much “in your face” attitude. I would love to see a winemaker here to dampen extraction a bit, use less new oak and maybe harvest a little before to make this wine fresher and more elegant. 95p.

2020 Clos Fourtet
APR 21 90M 7CS 3CF Ruby. Blackberries, cassis, fruit driven, scented, floral, intense nose, vanilla and spices nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, dark fruits, anise, blackberries, dense and intense with lift, layered and long. Graphite minerals finish. 14,5 alcohol, pH of 3,6. 50% new wood, 48 % second vintage and 2% amphora. 95-97

Full bottle 1,355 g. Cask sample taken 6 April. 90% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc. Fermentation of whole uncrushed berries in 25 small temperature-controlled tanks; extraction via manual pigeage; vatting period lasting 22 to 30 days; malolactic conversion in vats, jars and barrels.
Deep purple. Pretty heady, complex nose. Appetising palate. Round, ripe tannins lurking beneath some pretty sophisticated fruit. Finishes dry and spreads out on the very end like a peacock's tail. Much drier than most St-Émilions, with seriously interesting freshness.