2020 Château La Gaffelière
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This is an impressive deep purple. It has a lovely bouquet of dried lavender with pepper spice and violets, making for a very uplifting nose. Texturally, the tannins are detailed, layered, almost seamless. The palate is full of mouth-watering fruit, but there’s a restraint to the potential power of this wine. Only medium-bodied, this is a more pulled-back rendition of La Gaffelière. It has a lovely fantail finish, with uplifting florality and a mineral drive. This is elegant Saint-Emilion.
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James Suckling
Jancis Robinson MW
Altre recensioni e punteggi
Tasted blind. Deepest crimson. Sweet and perfumed black fruit. Tannins are rather dominant at the moment, adding to the freshness but giving a rather severe finish. (JH)
The 2020 La Gaffelière has a classically styled, tertiary, tobacco-scented bouquet that unfolds in a pleasing fashion. The palate is medium-bodied with lighter tannins than its peers, but it's still nicely balanced and pure. A caressing white pepper- and clove-tinged finish lingers in the mouth. It's very fine, but as I previously noted, this is quite a backward Saint-Émilion, which explains the plus sign and my lower mark than before. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.
A worthy follow up to the excellent 2019, the 2020 La Gaffelière bursts with aromas of plums, sweet berries, licorice, mint and loamy soil. Medium to full-bodied, seamless and concentrated, with lively acids and vibrant fruit flavors, it's built around powdery, fine-grained tannins. Cabernet Franc represents fully 40% of the blend. As I wrote last year, this estate, in many respects Saint-Émilion's sleeping giant, is awakening.