Chateau Chauvin (Futures Pre-Sale) 2021
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Packed with ripe, dense fruits, this wine is structured and full of black plum flavors. It is rich while guarding the freshness of the vintage. The wine is already well balanced.
Barrel Sample: 92-94 -
Jeb Dunnuck
The 2021 Château Chauvin will be terrific and is certainly outstanding. Giving up a subtle yet impressive bouquet of both red and black fruits as well as spicy oak, it's medium to full-bodied, has ripe tannins, beautiful overall balance, and a great finish. Give it a few years and it should evolve for 15+.
Barrel Sample: 90-92 -
James Suckling
Refined nose showing delicate sweet berries, white pepper spice, cigar box and cocoa powder. Elegant, bone-dry and linear on the palate with a medium body and pretty silky tannins. Not a wine for the depth of flavors or intensity. Finesse, delicacy and length are the key words. Already delicious, but can hold, too.
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Decanter
Dark chocolate touches on the nose are so appealing with violets and blackcurrants. Juicy and lively at first with the liquorice and clove elements following just closing the palate slightly into a more focused and linear style rather than being overly expansive. Tannins are fine and soft and this has a lovely graceful appeal despite the cool austere touches giving it a closed feel right now. Michel Rolland consultancy. Drinking Window: 2025 - 2040.
Barrel Sample: 91
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We have been in partnership with BIOVITIS since 1994. Half of the vineyard is ploughed mechanically, while the other half is cultivated with grass-cover between the rows. Green harvesting is carried out throughout the vegetation cycle, to bring yields to 35 to 40 Hl/Ha.
At Chauvin the wine is made in the traditional way, while also making the most of what modernity has to offer: nothing is done systematically and each year every effort is focused on adapting the techniques to the qualities of that year's grapes.
One of the world’s most classic and popular styles of red wine, Bordeaux-inspired blends have spread from their homeland in France to nearly every corner of the New World. Typically based on either Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot and supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, the best of these are densely hued, fragrant, full of fruit and boast a structure that begs for cellar time. Somm Secret—Blends from Bordeaux are generally earthier compared to those from the New World, which tend to be fruit-dominant.
Marked by its historic fortified village—perhaps the prettiest in all of Bordeaux, the St-Émilion appellation, along with its neighboring village of Pomerol, are leaders in quality on the Right Bank of Bordeaux. These Merlot-dominant red wines (complemented by various amounts of Cabernet Franc and/or Cabernet Sauvignon) remain some of the most admired and collected wines of the world.
St-Émilion has the longest history in wine production in Bordeaux—longer than the Left Bank—dating back to an 8th century monk named Saint Émilion who became a hermit in one of the many limestone caves scattered throughout the area.
Today St-Émilion is made up of hundreds of independent farmers dedicated to the same thing: growing Merlot and Cabernet Franc (and tiny amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon). While always roughly the same blend, the wines of St-Émilion vary considerably depending on the soil upon which they are grown—and the soils do vary considerably throughout the region.
The chateaux with the highest classification (Premier Grand Cru Classés) are on gravel-rich soils or steep, clay-limestone hillsides. There are only four given the highest rank, called Premier Grand Cru Classés A (Chateau Cheval Blanc, Ausone, Angélus, Pavie) and 14 are Premier Grand Cru Classés B. Much of the rest of the vineyards in the appellation are on flatter land where the soils are a mix of gravel, sand and alluvial matter.
Great wines from St-Émilion will be deep in color, and might have characteristics of blackberry liqueur, black raspberry, licorice, chocolate, grilled meat, earth or truffles. They will be bold, layered and lush.