Chateau Vieux Mazerat St. Emilion Grand Cru Classé 2011

Country: France Region: Saint Emilion, Bordeaux

Varietal: 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc

Vintage: 2011 Colour: Red Style: Dry

Producer: Chateau Vieux Mazerat

Description:
Vieux Chateau Mazerat is one of Jonathan Maltus’ sterling Saint Emilion projects, located just to the east of Angélus. It comprises 5 hectares in all, and like Maltus’ other scaled-down projects (Le Carré and Les Asteries included), it is fermented and bottled in the Chateau Teyssier headquarters, on the right bank of the Gironde.

This Grand Cru wine begins with a meaty, full-bodied palate, showing dense tannins and vibrant acidity. However, despite its big character, it still retains a classic right-bank silkiness. In terms of flavour, you can discover chewy, satisfying notes of black cherry, ripe plum, and cassis, with strong secondary hints of cocoa, liquorice, black olive, and crushed stone minerality. It ends with a lingering, spicy finish. Enjoyable in its youth, but can also be aged for 20 years or more after the bottling date. 

95/100 Points, Wine Enthusiast
"This powerful wine comes from a superbly sited vineyard in the heart of Saint-Emilion. It is concentrated with huge tannins laced with black plum juice, dark berries and a dense, brooding character. A powerhouse of both fruit and tannin, it needs to age." 

92-95/100 Points - Robert Parker, Wine Advocate
"The 2011 boasts a black/purple hue (like many of Jonathan Maltus's wines in 2011), terrific intensity, a skyscraper-like mouthfeel, and multidimensional flavours of crème de cassis, kirsch, licorice, toast, chocolate and spicy oak. It is a big, dense, thick, full-bodied St.-Emilion that is nearly atypical for the vintage. No doubt the old vines and tiny yields had a significant influence on the formation of this wine. Give it 5-6 years of cellaring and drink it over the following 25+."