2014 Le Boscq
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Powerful, knitted down, mint chocolate, cocoa bean, cassis and bilberry, still young and unfolding. Good qulity but not huge depth through the mid palate at this stage, give it a good few hours in a carafe to open it up. 37% new oak, manual harvest in small crates, gravel over clay. 18ha estate from Dourthe Vignobles.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
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51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot. 37% new French oak for 12–14 months. Not quite as ripe-fruited as the 2016, a touch more herbaceous but nicely so. The oak and chocolatey character on the finish is a little dominant still. Tannins also still pretty firm and the acidity sticks out a little bit. (JH)
The 2014 Le Boscq is a blend of 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot. It has a perfumed bouquet with brambly red berry fruit tinged with cedar and incense aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, crisp and quite tensile with lively blackcurrant and raspberry fruit, fine mineralité and a brisk, quite stony, grippy finish. Give this Saint Estèphe three or four years in bottle and you should have a fine Cru Bourgeois.
The 2014 Le Boscq is a sleeper for the vintage and shows just how well Saint-Estèphe did in 2014. Succulent dark cherry, plum, smoke, gravel and cured meat notes all meld together in a deep, pliant wine endowed with notable depth and intensity. This is a fabulous Cru Bourgeois from the Dourthe family of estates.