Chateau Clos de Sarpe - Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2022 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $94.99
| Producer | Chateau Clos de Sarpe |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Saint-Emilion |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 7753 |
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The estate creates wine that is excellent at any age. Balance is they key word in our production that is based on respecting the soil and its values. The vineyard is managed according to the greatest traditions of Bordeaux grand crus.
Chateau Clos de Sarpe Description
Château Clos de Sarpe is the first wine. It is an exceptional wine with a limited production of around 10,000 bottles per year. The blend is always identical, 85% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc. The quintessence of Saint-Émilion wines, powerful, complex, long. Clos de Sarpe will charm you with its freshness, its notes of exuberant red fruit, its silky tannins. To obtain this inimitable red fruit taste, we harvest when the grapes are perfectly ripe. The grapes are then meticulously sorted and only the perfect berries go into making the first wine. Winemaking is gentle, so that only the noble tannins are extracted. Ageing by plot in French oak barrels, 70% new barrels and 30% 1-year barrels. The wine is not fined on blending and not filtered before bottling.
Vinous: 97 Points
The 2022 Clos de Sarpe is fabulous. Brisk, aromatic and vibrant, the 2022 captures the intensity this site is known for. Dark red/purplish fruit, blood orange, spice, new leather and dried herbs make a strong first impression. Bright saline notes liven up the finish. This is quite simply one of the best editions of Clos de Sarpe I have tasted.
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
A blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc, the 2022 Clos de Sarpe wafts from the glass with aromas of sweet red berries, cherries, licorice and petals. Full-bodied, broad and layered, it's no blushing violet at 15% alcohol; yet this limestone terroir has delivered a remarkably low pH and concomitant freshness, and judicious extraction during a long but low-temperature maceration means that it remains suave and seamless.
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