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CHÂTEAU LA CLOTTE

2019 Grand Cru Classé Saint Emilion

Grapes Merlot, Cab Sauv, Cab Franc
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Saint Emilion & Satellites
Village Saint Emilion
Classification Grand Cru Classé
ABV 13.5%

The 2019 La Clotte has a perfumed and more floral nose than its peers, very well integrated oak, though it feels a bit corked. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, very pure black fruit laced with cedar, but maybe a touch of TCA denudes it freshness on the finish. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting. Rating: 0 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Feb 2023)


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The 2019 La Clotte opens with strong Cabernet notes of mocha, dried herbs, menthol, licorice and crushed leaves. Savory and potent, with terrific depth, La Clotte is shaping up to be a jewel of a wine. It doesn’t quite offer the immediacy of some recent vintages, but this is the sort of wine that blossoms only with a number of years in the cellar. Drinking range: 2029 - 2049 Rating: 93 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Feb 2022)

The 2019 La Clotte was picked from September 27 to October 7. It has a complex bouquet of detailed red berry fruit, wild hedgerow, crushed stone and wilted rose petal aromas, engaging and (for the vintage) understated. The palate is medium-bodied, ripe and beautifully poised, with pliant tannins and a judicious touch of spice. This builds wonderfully in the mouth and feels elegant and refined, almost Burgundian on the finish. Wonderful. Drinking range: 2025 - 2048 Rating: 95 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Feb 2022)

Restrained nose but good depth. Some dark-berry and spice complexity as it opens. Palate sinewy and firm, the limestone terroir apparent. Plenty of drive on the finish. Powerful and fresh but a bit austere. Needs time. Drinking range: 2026 - 2036 Rating: 16.5 James Lawther MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Jun 2020)

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