Winemaker Notes
With a dark ruby color, this wine is soft, expressing great flexibility and elegance, with fruity notes that recall ripe grapes.
This wine is a fine accompaniment for grilled red meats.
Blend: 70% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Malbec
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Earthy, red and black plum flavours with spicy, leathery notes, lovely tannins and a long finish.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2020 Château Haut Gaudin shows excellence from start to finish. This wine offers aromas and flavors of dried earth, black fruits, and aromatic herbs. Garnish a leg of lamb with rosemary, garlic, and freshly cracked black peppercorns. Pop the cork and enjoy. (Tasted: March 30, 2025, San Francisco, CA)
In most of France, wines are named by their place of origin and not by the type of grape (with the exception of Alsace). Just like a red Burgundy is by law, always made of Pinot noir, a red Bordeaux is a blended wine composed mainly of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Depending on the laws of the village from which the grapes come, the conditions of the vintage and decisions of the winemaker, the blend can be further supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Petit Verdot and in rare cases, Carmenere. So popular and repeated has this mix of grape varieties become worldwide, that the term, Bordeaux Blend, refers to a wine blended in this style, regardless of origin.