Chateau La Gaffeliere Saint Emilion Grand Cru Classé 2016
Country: France Region: Saint Emilion, Bordeaux
Varietal: 70% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc
Vintage: 2016 Category: Red Wine Style: Dry
Producer: Chateau La Gaffeliere
Description:
Château La Gaffelière 2016 boasts a very dark colour, inky with blue highlights. This wine displays remarkable class and a disconcerting aromatic and gustatory depth. Pure and tense from the olfactory attack, the nose expresses aromatic brilliance with freshly picked black fruits. Stirring reveals a very aromatic freshness. The entry is dynamic, the mid-palate expresses a very refined tannic structure, which is delicate, so fine in fact that we forget the presence of tannins. The wine is dense, very dense but without giving up its elegance. This is an aesthetic wine: truly 3-dimensional. Serve with meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, chicken, roasted, braised, stewed, and grilled dishes.
96/100 Points - James Suckling
"This is really decadent and rich, with great aromas of earth, spice, frost flowers and fresh mushrooms that carry through to a full body, firm, chewy tannins and a flavourful finish. Very, very serious from here. A blend of 70 percent merlot and 30 percent cabernet franc. Try after 2025."
95+/100 Points - Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate
"Medium to deep garnet-purple in colour, the 2016 La Gaffeliere opens with compelling wild blueberries, freshly crushed plums and kirsch scents plus hints of garrigue, underbrush, rose hip tea and pencil lead. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is wonderfully elegant with a soft, velvety texture and seamless freshness carrying the multi-layered fruit to a long finish. Drink Date 2021 - 2045."
93/100 Points - Neal Martin, vinous.com
"The 2016 La Gaffelière has a more savoury, perchance more Cabernet Franc–driven bouquet, but one that is well defined, with cedar and sandalwood notes judiciously tucked behind the brambly red fruit. The medium-bodied palate offers supple tannins and a fine bead of acidity. Fleshy and generous, yet displaying fine backbone and good persistence on the finish. A Saint-Émilion that has finally found its groove. "
Tasting Notes:
Château La Gaffelière 2016 boasts a very dark colour, inky with blue highlights. This wine displays remarkable class and a disconcerting aromatic and gustatory depth. Pure and tense from the olfactory attack, the nose expresses aromatic brilliance with freshly picked black fruits. Stirring reveals a very aromatic freshness. The entry is dynamic, the mid-palate expresses a very refined tannic structure, which is delicate, so fine in fact that we forget the presence of tannins. The wine is dense, very dense but without giving up its elegance.
