Les Asteries (Futures Pre-sale) 2010
Bordeaux Red Blends
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Robert
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James
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
2010
Size
750ML
ABV
14.7%
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Winemaker Notes
This Single Vineyard wine is made from a single hectare on 'Asteries' (rock limestone) soil between Chateau Fonroque and Clos Fourtet. The vines survived the frost of 1956 and are up to eighty years old. 'Panacheed' in the old style (Merlot interspersed with Cabernet Franc to ensure easy blending in the days before pumps) they are cropped down to four bunches per vine to reflect the 'terroir' of the parcel.
Very focused with the sophistication that could only come from 80-year old vines. Wonderful.
Blend: 83% Merlot, 17% Cabernet Franc
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Wine Spectator
Very lively, with lots of enticing blueberry, violet and plum aromas and flavors. There's nice focused grip on the back end, with ample length. Very solid.
Barrel Sample: 91-94 -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Another tiny production offering from proprietor Jonathan Maltus, this blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc is produced from a single vineyard situated near La Carre. The 2010 reveals notes of powdered rock as well as red and black fruits, moderately high tannin, good acidity and a fresh, lively, medium to full-bodied personality. Although slightly austere, it has not fleshed out from its late malolactic, but it looks very impressive. Give it 2-4 years of cellaring and drink it over the following 15+ years.
Range: 91-94 -
Wine Enthusiast
This is rounded, ripe, a densely tannic mineral wine, very intense. It is tense, structured, firm, promising long aging.
Barrel Sample: 92-94 -
James Suckling
Mineral and blackberry with a fresh herb note. Full and velvety.
This Single Vineyard wine is made from a single hectare on 'Astéries' (rock limestone) soil between Chateau Fonroque and Clos Fourtet. The vines survived the frost of 1956 and are up to eighty years old. 'Panachéed' in the old style (Merlot interspersed with Cabernet Franc to ensure easy blending in the days before pumps) they are cropped down to four bunches per vine to reflect the 'terroir' of the parcel.
Unlike most of the wines of the Chateau, Les Astéries exhibits a strain of minerality that emphasises the rock like sub-soil. The wine is pure vineyard rather than a 'winemaker's' wine. Huge colour, high extraction of black fruits, totally hedonistic palate but almost Saint-Estèphe grip on the finish, fresh and very, very long.
TEYLESAST_2010 Item# 118834