Clos Fourtet Saint-Émilion

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Other

Uva

Bordeaux-style Red Blend

País

France

Região

Saint-Émilion

Denominação

Saint-Émilion

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201393 pts

  The renaissance of Clos Fourtet continues, even in this difficult vintage. This wine has great fruit, layering black currant with berries. It's a precise wine, pointing up the structured tannins while leaving room for a juicy, fruity aftertaste. Drink from 2020.

• 201094 pts

  This chunky, fruity wine is full bodied and rich. It shows all the structure and weight of the vintage allied to ripe black fruits and a dense texture edged with minerality. Still very firm and youthful, it will need many years to mature.

• 200995 pts

  Elegant as well as rich, this is a beautiful wine. It has great depth of flavor, the sweetest fruit, deliciously ripe. At the same time, the tannins are an underlying sustenance to the impressive ageworthiness.

• 200789 pts

  There is a good core of tannin here, the fruit sweet plums and ripe tannins, relatively soft and easy. Only that kernel of tannin offers some aging possibility.

• 200692 pts

  Smoky and spicy aromas set the scene for a wine that plays on its wood and toast. These give a smooth texture to the berry fruits and dried raisins. At this stage in its development, the wine is still tight, but as it opens out its concentration will come through more, and the f…

• 200090 pts

  This was the last vintage at Clos Fourtet under the ownership of the Lurtons. They made fine wine, but the potential of the property was never quite realized. The wine just fails to excite: it is rich and concentrated with ripe tannins and some sweetness, but at the same time, t…