Winemaker Notes
Château Bouscaut Rouge is fleshy and of a beautiful depth. Adding Cabernet Sauvignon structures this elegant wine that is sliced with a hint of spicy Malbec. The vinification, carried out in stainless steel and concrete vats, precedes an aging of 12 months in new oak barrels for 40%.
Blend: 50% Merlot, 43% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Malbec
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Really impressive with blackberry, chocolate and black-olive aromas and flavors. Imposing richness and softness to this with well-defined tannins.
Range: 93-94 -
Wine Enthusiast
Chateau Bouscaut 2019 Pessac-Leognan. This generous and ripe wine is full bodied and dense. Black-plum fruits are spiced with wood aging and given weight by firm tannins. Packed with dark flavors. the wine will be ready from 2026.
Cellar Selection
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2019 Château Bouscaut is all that and more, with beautiful red and black currant fruit, notes of cedary spice, leather, and flowers, medium to full body, ripe, building tannins, and a great finish. It's going to need short-term cellaring but will keep for 15+ years. The blend is 50% Merlot, 43% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 7% Malbec.
Range: 91-93 -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Bouscaut wafts from the glass with a rich, ripe bouquet of jammy berries, burning embers and toasty new oak. Medium to full-bodied, broad and fleshy, with a fleshy core of fruit underpinned by a chassis of ripe, powdery tannin, this is a powerful, modern Pessac-Léognan in an impactful style. Best after 2021.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Chateau Bouscaut shows excellent focus with no extra frills on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine is active and bright with aromas and flavors of blackcurrants. Try it with grilled lamb chops. (Tasted: June 29, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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.
Recognized for its superior reds as well as whites, Pessac-Léognan on the Left Bank claims classified growths for both—making it quite unique in comparison to its neighboring Médoc properties.
Pessac’s Chateau Haut-Brion, the only first growth located outside of the Médoc, is said to have been the first to conceptualize fine red wine in Bordeaux back in the late 1600s. The estate, along with its high-esteemed neighbors, La Mission Haut-Brion, Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Pique-Caillou and Chateau Pape-Clément are today all but enveloped by the city of Bordeaux. The rest of the vineyards of Pessac-Léognan are in clearings of heavily forested area or abutting dense suburbs.
Arid sand and gravel on top of clay and limestone make the area unique and conducive to growing Sémillon and Sauvignon blanc as well as the grapes in the usual Left Bank red recipe: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and miniscule percentages of Petit Verdot and Malbec.
The best reds will show great force and finesse with inky blue and black fruit, mushroom, forest, tobacco, iodine and a smooth and intriguing texture.
Its best whites show complexity, longevity and no lack of exotic twists on citrus, tropical and stone fruit with pronounced floral and spice characteristics.