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Saint-Émilion
Saint-Émilion · France
Fact sheet
- Type
- Other
- Country
- France
- Region
- Saint-Émilion
- Appellation
- Saint-Émilion
- Body
- full
- Acidity
- medium
- Tannin
- high
- Sweetness
- dry
Food pairing
red meats · lamb · game meats · aged cheeses · stews · pasta with ragù
Rated vintages
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200893 pts
With its big, ripe chocolate, raising and dark plums flavors, this is a deliciously perfumed wine, its tannins a firm motif around the rich fruit. At the end, it exhibits the freshness of the year.
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200790 pts
Elegant as so often from this estate, the wine rounded, relatively soft and fruity. Red berry fruits dominate, with just the right amount of fine extraction. For medium-term aging.
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200593 pts
Very straight, firm, a wine that seems to be developing slowly. The blackberry fruits are impressive, rich and pure, and the tannins form a dense core of darkness. The wood is currently showing too strongly, but the fruit will certainly open out in a year or so. An impressive wi…
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200091 pts
The wine is rich and ripe, revealing purity of fruit as well as prominent new wood flavors. Otto Rettenmaier, whose cellar is full of wooden cuves named after opera stars, now operates in a biodynamic way and that seems to give an intensity of flavor as well as lusciousness and…