Les Astéries Saint-Émilion

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Other

Uva

Bordeaux-style Red Blend

País

France

Região

Saint-Émilion

Denominação

Saint-Émilion

Corpo

full

Acidez

high

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201494 pts

  Tight and concentrated, this is a very fine wine. Great acidity and great tannins go with the most intense fruit. Blackberry and black-cherry flavors power through this structured wine. There is also elegance and a fine sense of style. Drink from 2025.

• 201393 pts

  Tight, textured and mineral, this wine just hints at the fruit to come. It is dark, brooding and concentrated, with black-plum flavors just beginning to shine through the dry texture. It needs aging, so drink from 2022.

• 201293 pts

  Very structured and packed with tannins, this has the weight to balance those qualities, promising layers of black fruits as it develops. There's a mineral character here, the tannins in suspension. The aftertaste brings out delicious, lightly salty acidity. Drink from 2018.

• 201194 pts

  Structured and firm, this is a dark chocolate and black fruit-driven wine with solid tannins and enormous density. It has a mineral texture with a dry core surrounded by juicy berry fruits. A powerful wine, it promises a long-term future. Drink from 2018.

• 201094 pts

  Austere and severe, this single-vineyard wine is very much a product of its limestone terroir. It has a mineral intensity that pushes through the tannins and black currant fruit, giving a powerful, dark character. Firm and structured, this is a wine for the long term.

• 200893 pts

  With its classic mineral edge, dusty tannins and firm, dry structure, the wine has a core that weighs well with the severe texture. As a contrast, the fruit underneath is ripe and juicy. A wine for several years' aging.

• 200692 pts

  As a contrast to Jonathan Maltus's Le Carré, this single-vineyard wine, from vines situated only 100 yards away, has a taut, mineral flavor, with an initial austere character which then opens out to give dark bitter chocolate and plum skin flavors. It is potentially a richer, mo…