2015 CHÂTEAU CHARMAIL Cru Bourgeois Supérieur Haut Médoc, Lea & Sandeman

CHÂTEAU CHARMAIL

2018 Cru Bourgeois Supérieur Haut Médoc

Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Classification Cru Bourgeois Supérieur
ABV 13.5%

Another wine that is worth loading up on in good vintages. Warm nose of toasty oak and dark berries. More dark fruit on the palate. Tannins build but not overly. Attractive, crowd pleasing style. Drinking range: 2022 - 2030 L&S (Apr 2019)


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Aromas of bitter berries, dark spices, pine, charred bark and dried flowers. It’s medium-to full-bodied with creamy, well-integrated tannins. Concentrated and fragrant. Drinking range: 2022 - Rating: 92 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (Jan 2021)

From the northern part of the Médoc (just across from Sociando Mallet) 2018 Château Charmail reveals a deep blue/purple color as well as pretty, elegant notes of blue fruits, incense, spicy oak, and fruitcake. Offering full body, a notable sense of purity and elegance, and building structure, it should keep for 10-15 years. The blend is tentatively 39% Merlot, 37% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Cabernet Franc, and the balance Petit Verdot, representing 80% of the total production, still aging in 30% new French oak with the balance in concrete eggs and 500-liter barrels. Hubert de Boüard has consulted here since 2015. Rating: 90-92 Jeb Dunnuck, www.jebdunnuck.com (May 2019)

The 2018 Charmail comes from the lieu-dit Charmail in Saint-Seurin-de-Cadourne. The blend is 39% Merlot, 37% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Cabernet Franc and 11% Petit Verdot. Aging is projected to run 12 months in 30% new oak barrels. The rest of the wine is aging in 17-hectoliter concrete eggs and 500-liter barrels. Deep garnet-purple colored, it gives up very spicy notes of cracked black pepper, cumin seed and cloves over a core of warm plums, blackcurrant cordial, underbrush and a waft of cedar. Medium to full-bodied, it has a firm, grainy line cutting through the muscular fruit, finishing with a lively herbal lift. Rating: 89-91 Lisa Perrotti-Brown, RobertParker.com (Apr 2019)

Château Charmail

The name Charmail comes from its 16th century origins, when the Trevey de Charmail family settled in the Medoc. It's a property on classic Médoc gravel and clay, of about 27.5 hectares, sitting high up and overlooking the Gironde.

Olivier Sèze bought Charmail in 1982. A leader in many ways, both in viticulture and in winemaking, he developed a process of pre-fermentation cold maceration, still used here now, which produces deeper coloured, fatter wines with soft tannins and this, along with the relatively high proportion of Merlot for the Haut-Médoc (50%), gives wines that are ready to drink within 4 to 6 years of the vintage. It also seems to make Charmail a fairly good bet in lesser vintages. The grapes are all hand-harvested and the wine is aged in barrel for 12 months.

In 2008 Bernard d’Halluin bought Charmail, and it was agreed that Olivier should continue to work there and be part of the new team, in charge of the winemaking. Bernard's daughter Marie has taken charge of the presentation and marketing.

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