Saint Julien

59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot, 4% Cabernet Franc. Slipery silk feel, so easy and fine. Lovely envelope and gloss to the Cabernet-flavoured quite focused fruit. Glossy yet dryly linear, with sappy fr...(read more)

Good wholesome aromatic fruit. Delicacy and precision, red fruit with high-toned red currant, then a bit more depth. There's really a very attractive richness here. A little spice. Goes on well.

Plush and rounded, lively and winning with a good mid-palate feel and the quite evident oak is attractive rather than overpowering.

The initial impression is of a very strong sweet oakiness - rather new world in style. But the volume is there underneath and the dense fruit character of the wine shrugs off this coating and powers on with smooth dry Ca...(read more)

Deep colour, a healthy firm purple. Very pure, floral and fresh black fruit expressive nose. Sweet and taut, rounded with a sense of sucrosity. Tannins silky even if very present. The tannins levels are almost identical...(read more)

Not staggeringly deep in colour, but as usual this has an indefinably classy royal purple aspect. The nose is warm with the ripeness of black fruit and a deep cedary complexity. Sophisticated complex flavour to go with t...(read more)

Much dumber on the nose than Langoa, much more Cabernet in character. Thick and serious. Dense yet fresh in expression. Fruitcake, black fruit, spice, indivisible. Lovely dry structure filled with fruit, great intensity...(read more)

Like the Fiefs, Cabernet dominates. Classic, tight and straight, but with a richness of texture and velvety feel, and still a considerable freshness of fruit. Really excellent, and the spice of wood that the carefully ma...(read more)

The sharp-eyed will spot the trumpeting angels and the name 'Domaines Henri Martin' on the label that show that this is the second wine of Château Gloria. The heritage shows as this has a true Saint Julien silhouet...(read more)

Produced at Gloria, this is part of the 'Domaines Henri Martin', and is a Saint Julien with restraint and classical lines.

78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc. This is only the 4th time they have added Cabernet Franc here, and there is a noticeable elegance to the wine. Great St Julien feel. This packs a lovely punch. Sophi...(read more)