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2023 Château La Gaffelière, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot (58%), Cabernet Franc (42%)
Not ready
Product: 20238124315
2023 Château La Gaffelière, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Description

The 500cl jeroboam case is available exclusively at Berry Bros. & Rudd.

Blend: 58% Merlot; 42% Cabernet Franc. 

This is another bull’s-eye from La Gaffelière. This year, 6% of the harvest is aged in new 500-litre barrels (44% in new, traditional Bordeaux barriques, the rest in second fill and 2% amphorae). This reduces the impact of oxygen and preserves freshness, but it also makes the wine harder for youth to read. Sitting at the bottom of the limestone slope below Ausone, La Gaffelière’s charm shows chalky freshness from the rock with the lower location's silky textures. The palate is like velour yet threaded with a whisper of gritty minerality. It is lovely and really very fine indeed, again. 

Drink 2029 - 2050

Our score: 18/20

Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2023
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Merlot (58%), Cabernet Franc (42%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château La Gaffelière

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Saint-Emilion

Saint-Emilion

First officially classified in 1954, St-Émilion is one of Bordeaux's largest winemaking appellations, producing more wine than Listrac, Moulis, St Estèphe, Pauillac, St Julien and Margaux combined. Many of the region's finest vineyards can be found atop the steep limestone slopes of the village itself, although a fledgling band of garagiste producers are eschewing terroir to make small-batch, deeply-concentrated wines from their homes.
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Chateau La Gaffeliere

Château La Gaffelière is owned by Léo de Malet Roquefort, and the 22 hectare property produces on average 10,000 cases per year. Located in the centre of the St. Emilion appellation, due south of St. Emilion town, the property shares a similar climate to that enjoyed by both St.Emilion and Pomerol: more continental than the maritime Médoc, with generally more spring rainfall, though less in summer and winter.
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