Chateau Soutard-Cadet 2019

Professional Ratings

• 97 Jeb Dunnuck

  I love this château, and the 2019 Château Soutard-Cadet is another brilliant wine that's in the same ballpark as the 2018. Sporting a deep purple hue as well as a rich, powerful nose of ripe black fruits, scorched earth, spicy oak, graphite, and damp earth, it's rich and concentrated, yet the purity is brilliant, it has silky and perfectly ripe tannins, flawless balance, and a great finish. As I wrote from barrel, it's going to benefit from just 2-4 years of bottle age and, I suspect, have 20, 25, if not 30 years of overall longevity. Best After 2024

• 95 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2019 Soutard-Cadet sashays out of the glass with drop-dead gorgeous scents of Black Forest cake, stewed plums, boysenberries and licorice plus suggestions of espresso and Indian spices. Medium to full-bodied, the palate delivers impactful freshness and great intensity, textured by plush tannins and finishing long and layered.
  Barrel Sample: 93-95
• 93 James Suckling

  Sweet tobacco, mushroom and dark berries on the nose, following through to a medium to full body with firm tannins and a light toasted-oak aftertaste to the fruit. Give this time to resolve the wood and come together.

• 91 Decanter
  Firm frame with fine tannic hold and restrained but plummy fruits - enjoyable stuff from the same owners at Château Sansonnet. This one takes its time to show itself, with subdued aromatics on the first nose and a slow crawl through the palate, loaded up with liquorice and tobacco, spice box notes as it opens, slight traces of heat on finish.
  Barrel Sample: 91