Land/Region: Frankreich/Saint-Julien

Bewertung: 96-98 PP

Alkoholgehalt: 13% Vol.

Hersteller: Château Beychevelle

Allergenhinweis: enthält Sulfite

Produktbeschreibung

The 2016 Beychevelle is a blend of 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 47% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc cropped at 45 hectoliters per hectare between 3 October and 18 October. It is matured in 50% new oak. Furthermore, it is the first vintage to be matured in the new chichi winery whose glass exterior overlooks the passing traffic on the D2. It has a very pure, fragrant bouquet with black cherries, cassis, cedar and wet limestone, extremely precise to the point where you might think it was from the Right Bank (logical given the proportion of Merlot in the blend). The palate is sensational: understated at first and bridled with ultra-fine tannin, it is a Beychevelle armed with a disarming sense of symmetry. It builds in the mouth towards a fabulously tensile finish that is so fresh and full of energy that the senses are almost overwhelmed. Frankly, it leaves all the other Beychevelles in recent years standing. This is an electrifying 2016 from winemaker Philippe Blanc and his right-hand man, technical director, Romain Ducolomb.

Land/Region: Frankreich/Saint-Julien

Bewertung: 95-97 PP  19/20 René Gabriel

Alkoholgehalt: 13% Vol.

Hersteller: Château Léoville Poyferré

Allergenhinweis: enthält Sulfite

Produktbeschreibung

The 2016 Léoville Poyferré is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. Didier Cuvelier told me that color leeched out naturally and he conducted an 8 day pre-fermentation maceration. Matured in 80% new oak with some malolactic in barrel, it has a typical bouquet for this estate with opulent but neatly controlled, billowing scents of black cherries, black plum, crème de cassis and violets. The palate is beautifully balanced with fine tannin, a killer line of acidity and perhaps one of the most harmonious Poyferré that I have encountered at this juncture. It just glides across the mouth and slips down the throat with consummate ease. Superb.
 
60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc, 44 hl/ha, 55% Grand Vin) Tiefgründiges, samtenes, kraftvoller, komplexes Bouquet, schwarzer Cassis, Trüffel, Zedern, dunkler Tabak, Minze, Lakritze, Black Currant. Dichter, vielschichtiger, wuchtiger, eleganter Gaumen mit konzentrierter Frucht, sehr viel gutem Tannin, komprimierter, vielfältiger Aromatik, dichter, fein muskulöser Struktur, sehr langer, dichter, aromatischer Abgang mit vielen dunklen Rückaromen.