Chateau Clos de Sarpe - Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2023 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $94.99
| Producer | Chateau Clos de Sarpe |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Saint-Emilion |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Sku | 7802 |
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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: 95 Points
The 2023 Clos de Sarpe is a potent Saint-Emilion. There's plenty of intensity but less of the overt opulence of a few years ago. Black cherry, plum, licorice, leather, dried herbs and incense struggle to emerge from a wall of searing tannins. Blackberry jam, creme de cassis, lavender and mocha extend the finish. The acidity, as measured by pH, is more like that of a white wine. I am very curious to see where this goes.
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