Winemaker Notes
Blend: 60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A linear and rather tight red with some berry, crushed-stone and bark character. Medium body, firm tannins and a slightly austere finish. 60% merlot and 40% cabernet sauvignon. Give it two or three years to soften.
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Wine Enthusiast
This is a fruity wine, with blackberry flavors to the fore. Offering acidity and firm tannins to complement the fruit, the wine has a good future.
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Decanter
Deep plum colour, lovely bright reflections, this is an intense Chantegrive with plenty of tannins and fruit that is clearly full of flavour - blueberry and raspberry alongside traces of bitter chocolate and some fig. A little overly concentrated on the finish but this has flavour and personality.
Barrel Sample: 90
One of the world’s most classic and popular styles of red wine, Bordeaux-inspired blends have spread from their homeland in France to nearly every corner of the New World. Typically based on either Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot and supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, the best of these are densely hued, fragrant, full of fruit and boast a structure that begs for cellar time. Somm Secret—Blends from Bordeaux are generally earthier compared to those from the New World, which tend to be fruit-dominant.
Famous for both its red and white wines, Graves is a large region, extending 30 miles southeast of the city of Bordeaux, along the left bank of the Garonne River. Red wine producing vineyards cover well over three times as much area as the whites. In the late 1980s, the French created the separate appellation of Pessac-Léognan within the northern confines of Graves. It includes all of its most famous properties, and the southern suburbs of the city Bordeaux itself. In French "graves" is a term used to indicate gravelly soils.