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2021 Château Lilian Ladouys, St Estèphe, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
Not ready
Product: 20218123855
2021 Château Lilian Ladouys, St Estèphe, Bordeaux

Description

Cabernet Sauvignon 53%, Merlot 40%, Cabernet Franc 7%

As elsewhere, the proportion of Merlot is reduced in 2021, but there doesn’t seem to have been any problem to get the Cabernet Sauvignon properly ripe. This is another St Estèphe that is more successful than might have been expected. There is plenty of attractive, pure and energetic redcurrant fruit, and some appealing musky perfumed notes of violet. There is a nice line of St Estèphe rigour through the palate, but everything is ripe and well poised. This is an appealing, fresh, pretty wine that has been very well handled. Drink 2024-2034.

Our score: 15.5/20

Berry Bros. & Rudd, April 2022

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2021
Maturity Not ready
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Lilian Ladouys

About this wine

Chateau Lilian Ladouys

Château Lilian Ladouys is Bordeaux Cru Bourgeois wine property located in  Saint-Estèphe with 40ha vineyards on gravel rich soils and well-drained slopes overlooking the Gironde. Plantings are 58% Cabernet-Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc. The wine style is robust, with loads of black currant fruit, cherries and dusty, loamy soil notes as well as hints of tobacco leaf, spice box and cedar, that should agenicely for 10+ years
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Saint-Estèphe

Saint-Estèphe

Saint-Estèphe is the northernmost of the most important communes of the Médoc, bordering Pauillac on its southernmost border, with only a gully and stream separating it from Ch. Lafite Rothschild. The wines can appear austere in youth, but the best typically display good depth of colour, pronounced acidity and tannins in youth, and are exceptionally long-lived. At their best, they are the equal of almost any Bordeaux.
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