Fleur Cardinale
Pagodes de Cos
Chateau Dassault
In 1862 Victor Beylot created the "Château Couperie" in Saint-Émilion. Purchased in 1955 by the aircraft manufacturer Marcel Dassault as a "communication tool" and a subsidiary of the Dassault Group, close to the Dassault sites in Mérignac and Martignas-sur-jalle, he renamed the Château after him. In 1969 Château Dassault obtained the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé classification.
Beauséjour
An exceptional wine from this estate in 2021. So aromatic and beguiling on the nose - pure, lifted, completely captivating in the intensity of fruit and the liveliness of aroma with tiny touches of milk chocolate and perfumed blackcurrants. Supple, agile and sappy on the palate, but also so delicate and elegant in terms of the overall profile. Tannins are fine and gentle, persistent but with the limestone terroir coming through in the mineral, saline, graphite elements which linger at the end. There is definite concentration, you feel they got the maturity of the fruit and didn't push extraction. It's not super opulent, but expands on the palate and changes after a few minutes in the glass and as it warms, gaining in aromatic complexity. Really very juicy and pristine with cherry, strawberry and blackcurrant fruit as well as liquorice and dark chocolate. Excellent quality with freshness and appeal, balanced and harmonious with the slight lift and peak of clove, vanilla, cedar bramble suggesting a bigger frame that will age well. A success and extremely likeable. 58% new oak. First full vintage for Josephine Duffau-Lagarrosse since she took the helm of her family estate. Tasted twice. Julien Viaud consultant. Georgina Hindle Decanter 95 Points
Les Aromes de Pavie
CHATEAU BEAUSEJOUR DUFFAU
Chateau Quinault L'Enclos
Chateau Quintus St Emilion
Extremely focused and refined, with firm tannins that run the length of the wine. Medium-bodied with lovely length and juiciness. Blackberry and earth with mushroom and bark. Hints of orange peel, too. 68.2% merlot, 31.3% cabernet franc and 0.5% malbec. JS 95 Points