  Château HAUT-SAINT-CLAIR (PUISSEGUIN-SAINT-ÉMILION)
Yannick et Andrea Le Menn
33570 Puisseguin
Téléphone :05 57 74 66 82
Télécopie : 05 57 74 51 50
Email : chateau.haut.saint.clair@orange.fr
Site : www.hautsaintclair.fr
At the top. These likeable owners brood their small vineyard whose vines are 35 years old. The type of vines Merlot (65%), Cabernet franc (25%) and Cabernet-Sauvignon (10%) are associated with this soil argilo-limestone and meticulous care (stripping, grapes sorted before de-stalking, long macerations, maturing out of barrels, of which 1/3 is renewed each year…). One gives pleasure with their Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion2008, of robe garnet-red, rich, with the nose intense, complex, of a beautiful final where the ripe black cherry and the undergrowth prevail, wine of a flattering and rich mouth at the same time. “I find that the 2008 is one vintagecharmer, very pleasant to drink, we says Andrea Le Menn. Beautiful tannic presence which allows him a potential of guard. Nice very dark color, spiced notes, much of matter and complexity. 2007: wine charmer pleasant to taste before the 2008. On beef accompanied by boletus to the pronounced taste, I advise a wine more concentrated like the 2008, on a poultry, the 2007 will be more suitable. In this moment I regale myself with the 2002, a wine melted very charmer. Cuvée Moulin Saint Clair 2009 is a very nice wine with the very light timbered note (passage in some 2 year old barrels), just a small touch which is appropriate very well for the vintage. It is a wine with the superb potential.” All in mouth, indeed, the 2007 is a wine well-balanced and supple, with melted tannins, very pleasant with this nose of violet and ripe small fruits red, which associates distinction and richness, full and fleshy in mouth, it tastes itself already very well. Structure and roundness, characterize this excellent 2006, all in mouth, delicate and fleshy, a very scented wine (violet, black cherry) which continues its beautiful evolution. Beautiful 2005, where the spices and the blackcurrant intermingle harmoniously, a wine where the suppleness prevails, with these notes very characteristic of leather and slightly crystallized fruits finally, with rich tannins, robust, which continues its beautiful evolution. The 2004 very traditional, is coloured and fullbodied, with firm and silky tannins at the same time, of a nice concentration in mouth, with the notes of currant, humus and spices. “The 2006 and 2004, Yannick Menn continues, are Atlantic vintages with floral aromas, whereas 2005 and 2003 are of the wines of the southernmost type, with the black fruit aromas. In fact, the 2006 and 2004 are “female” wines more. They have each one their own characters but they resemble each other because the climatic conditions were similar, two vintages rather traditional of Bordelais which have a beautiful elegance and complexity. They “were framed” by very media vintages and it is damage, because I am sure, that, when these bottles are opened, in a few years, one will have much pleasure to taste them.” Taste their excellent second wine, the vintage Moulin Saint- Clair, regularly successful, with prevailing of roundness. Very beautiful quality-price-typicité ratio. | | | |
  Château BALESTARD la TONNELLE (SAINT-ÉMILION)
Jacques Capdemourlin
33330 Saint-Émilion
Téléphone :05 57 74 62 06
Télécopie : 05 57 74 59 34
Email : info@vignoblescapdemourlin.com
Site : www.vignoblescapdemourlin.com
For more than 400 years, Saint-émilion has been the cradle of the family. Jacques Capdemourlin, his Thierry son at his sides, is impassioned and untiring, carrying the fine words with the four corners of the world. Balestard was the name of a canon of the chapter of Saint-émilion. This vintage is very old and the François Villon poet, in XVe century praised already qualities of the wine in a poem being reproduced besides on his label. The 10.60 ha (70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet franc and 5% Cabernet-Sauvignon) open out on a rock plate, a soil enjoying an excellent sunning. “We are satisfied with the 2010 harvest, says Jacques Capdemourlin, the wine is currently with the maturing. We really sought to obtain most beautiful maturity by pushing back the date of the grape harvest. To treat the vintage as well as possible, we used a table with tri optics, only the nicest grapes entered out of tanks. Our goal on the various properties is to obtain best possible quality, a beautiful expression of our soils. The 2010 is announced like a very nice wine, the 2009 has a beautiful richness, a great concentration, it is a very very full wine, a very large bottle. The 2008 is a wine of color steady, very on the fruit, rich, of a beautiful concentration, very harmonious, of a great elegance, with wooded well-balanced.” The GCC Château Balestard Tonnelle 2008, indeed, with a nose where the currant and the spices prevail, all in aromatic complexity, is a wine which associates richness and harmony, very promising. Attractive 2007, with the nuances of blackberries and of roasted, a wine powerful and yet very round, very full, with silky tannins full, dense and firm with prevailing of prune finally, a coloured wine, of beautiful amplitude. The 2006, is well-balanced, generous and of an exquisite smoothness, a very tempting wine. Coming from a winegrowing of 14 ha vines, Saint-ÉmilionGCC Cap de Mourlin 2008, garnet-red robe, all in aromas, with rich tannins, the nose of prune and humus, all in mouth, of excellent guard. The 2007, where the smoothness is combined with velvety in mouth persisting, is charmer, with the scents of spices and morello cherry, intense color, consistent, with tasty tannins, of a beautiful concentration. The 2006, with the notes of truffle and strawberry of wood, of a great harmony, very scented, with a well balanced mellowness, generous and persistent in mouth, of very good structure, rich and supple at the same time. Saint-Émilion GCC Petit Faurie de Soutard 2008, resulting from 8 ha vines, with these notes of blackberry and morello cherry, rich color, combines smoothness and structure, with quite well-balanced tannins. Excellent 2007, all in mouth, with the plum nose, associating powerfull and smoothness, a rich and quite fleshy wine as they are liked, of beautiful steady robe, of a nice concentration, with the powerful and subtle nose at the same time, the connotations of truffle, melted in mouth. The 2006 is characterized by its smoothness, with wooded still well marked, a wine very suave mouth. Château ROUDIER A tasty Montagne- Saint-Émilion 2008, resulting from 30 ha vines located full south, very successful, combining aromatic concentration, roundness of tannins and persistence in mouth. The 2007, with the ripe fruit aromas are tender, attractive and crunching in mouth. Denser, the 2006 is of color cherry steady, with the powerful cooked fruit aromas, tannins firm and melted at the same time. | | | | |
 Château FONROQUE (SAINT-ÉMILION)
Direction : Alain Moueix
33330 Saint-Émilion
Téléphone :05 57 24 60 02
Télécopie : 05 57 24 74 59
Email : info@chateaufonroque.com
Site : www.chateaufonroque.com
Beautiful Saint-Émilion GCC 2008 (88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet franc, wine resulting from grapes in conversion towards the organic farming), combining structure and aromatic presence, with well-balanced tannins, spiced, of a very nice concentration in mouth but also all in smoothness, of very good guard. The 2007, of a beautiful color deep ruby, with aromas of ripe red fruits, spices and of vanilla, is a full wine, of a remarkable balance in mouth, with much of suppleness, very successful. The 2006, typified, with firm and silky tannins at the same time, is a powerful great wine and always prevailed by elegance, with currant scents and of smoked, of very good guard. The 2005, with the nuances of blackberry and of roasted, with tannins of a great sweetness and a beautiful length, is a wine rich in bouquet as out of matter, all in mouth, of guard. | | | |
  Château PIGANEAU (SAINT-ÉMILION)
Jean-Baptiste et Vincent Brunot
1, Jean-Melin
33330 Saint-Émilion
Téléphone :05 57 55 09 99
Télécopie : 05 57 55 09 95
Email : vignobles.brunot@wanadoo.fr
Site : www.vignobles-brunot.fr
At the top, which comes to reward a formidable quality-price-pleasure ratio. “Under the impulse of my Vincent son, we slightly modified the way of maturing our wines. We privilege the fruit and reduce the new wood contribution. The wines are always matured a year out of barrels but with only new wood 25%, that makes it possible to avoid oxidation and a taste of wooded too which prevails. One obtains more velvety wines, fruitier, more attractive, with an aptitude to be aged but also ready to be appreciated in their youth. We remain reasonable in the maturing out of barrels which should not mask our nice low register and sand soil, it is thanks to that our wines are not too tannic.” One can only approve and give pleasure with this Saint-Émilion GC 2008 (6 ha, of a gravelo-sandy soil (83% of Merlot and 17% of Cabernet franc, gravelo-sandy soil), with full tannins, robust, a wine of beautiful structure, with the subtle and intense bouquet at the same time (morello cherry, currant, pepper…), all in persistence, of guard. Tasty 2007, with this powerful and delicate nose at the same time, a wine of a great harmony in mouth, with much of fruit, rich and delicate, typified well, of beautiful deep robe, with the persistent aromas of ripe red small fruits with spice notes. Very beautiful 2006, silver medals in Paris and of Bronze with Bourg, robe crimson, fullbodied, with the intense nose of ripe red small fruits and leather, with the nuances of blackcurrant and of roasted, with tannins of a great sweetness and a beautiful length in mouth. Superb 2005, of very dark color, with the nuances of morello cherry and raspberry, a wine with very well-balanced tannins, of full mouth, all in aromas, of beautiful guard. Tasty 2004, of very good structure, with the nose where intermingle with the red undergrowth and ripe fruit notes good, quite fullbodied, a wine which start to be appreciated, a beautiful length. The 2003 is very tasty, very representative of this vintage charmer, coloured, with the complex notes where the blackberry, the spices and the humus prevail, of persistent mouth. The 2002 is of beautiful robe crimson steady, with the black cherry and truffle, spice notes, harmonious, with a well balanced mellowness, generous and persistent in mouth. The 2001 is very well matured out of barrels, of a beautiful color pronounced ruby, with notes of ripe fruits (blackcurrant and raspberry) and of liquorice. Beautiful 2000, rich in aromas, of a beautiful structure with much of elegance, marked by the fruits, cinnamon and the humus, very well-balanced with the nose as in mouth. Superb quality-price-pleasure ratio, which is nothing. | | | |
 Château CLOS DES PRINCE (SAINT-ÉMILION)
Marie-Christine Prince
À Saint-Laurent-des-Combes
33330 Saint-Émilion
Téléphone :05 57 84 64 14 et 06 76 81 04 11
Télécopie : 05 57 84 64 54
Email : vignobles-prince@wanadoo.fr
A vineyard of 2 ha, on siliceous and deep sands and of iron filths in basement, with an average age of the 35 year old vines (90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet franc). Here is a great success with this Saint-Émilion GC 2007, traditional and powerful, delicate, elegant, with matter, of beautiful steady color, with the aromas of red fruits intense (plum, blackberry) and a note of violet, of a nice final. The 2006 is very charmer as it should be in this vintage all in suppleness, with delicate tannins, of fruity and fleshy mouth, a robust wine, with the nuances of blackberry and humus, intense mouth. The 2005 combine structure and distinction, a wine of a nice concentration in mouth, with the notes of currant, smoked and pepper, guard. Excellent 2004, with the characteristic spice and black cherry scents, of beautiful structure, rich, fleshy, all in subtlety, a wine all n mouth, distinguished, which rained us much. | | | |
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