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La Gaffelière 2019 75cl

1er Grand Cru Classé B | St. Emilion | Bordeaux | France
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96 Vinous
The 2019 La Gaffelière has a wonderful bouquet of mineral-rich black and red fruit and sous-bois, a little tobacco and pencil box emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, fleshy and ripe. Perfectly balanced, leading to an almost Left Bank, graphite-tinged finish courtesy of the 40% Cabernet Franc, the 2019 continues the purple patch of this Saint-Émilion stalwart. No doubt a wine that will give 30 to 40 years of drinking pleasure.
95 Robert Parker
The 2019 La Gaffelière wafts from the glass with a rich bouquet of blackberries and cherries mingled with subtle hints of burning embers and loamy soil that's framed by a deft application of creamy new oak. Medium to full-bodied, deep and seamless, it's a concentrated, vibrant wine built around bright acids and fine, powdery tannins. Its vivid fruit tones and classical balance make this Cabernet Franc-rich blend a promising candidate for sustained bottle age. Anyone who has tasted the great wines this estate produced in the 1950s and 1960s knows how great this site can be; and with stricter selection as well as the elimination of fruit from vines growing on the plain from the blend, that potential appears to be being unleashed at last.
94 Wine Spectator
This rolls out dense fig, boysenberry and red currant paste flavors laced with pronounced chalky minerality and notes of tobacco, dried anise and juniper. The serious tannic drive on the finish puts this in the 'classically austere' camp. Worth cellaring for sure, but patience is required. Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2024 through 2040. —J.M.
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Château La Gaffelière
Over the past decade, the quality at this estate has climbed dramatically. The unbroken presence of the Malet Roqueforts at Château La Gaffelière since 1705 makes them the oldest winegrowing family in Saint-Émilion. Located in the heart of the appellation, the 22-hectare vineyard lies on some of the greatest sloped sandy-clay and limestone terroirs. The land is planted to more than three-fourths Merlot with the remaining planted to Cabernet Franc. Today, the property is looked after by the attentive Count Léo de Malet Roquefort and the wines are consistently improving, displaying more of the château’s true potential year after year. Like a classically structured Saint-Émilion, La Gaffelière wines are sophisticated, medium- rather than full-bodied with a mineralistic undertone that is spotted with subtle hints of dark fruits and smokiness. The estate produces two wines, the Château La Gaffelière as their Grand Vin, which after ten years’ cellaring greatly develops, as well as their second wine, the Clos La Gaffelière.