Winemaker Notes
This Cuvée Prestige pours a deep, dark ruby red, expressing bold aromas of ripe black fruits tinged with notes of bittersweet chocolate and espresso. The palate is dense and rich displaying unraveling flavors of cassis and Marasca cherries. This wine is extremely well-balanced, offering firm, but well-integrated tannins that ferry the dark fruits to a lengthy, complex finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Lots of blackberry and tar character with medium body, firm tannins and a tangy finish.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2020 Chateau Jalousie Beaulieu Cuvee Prestige is an alluring red wine with attractive layers on the palate. This wine showcases aromas and flavors of wild raspberries, ripe blackberries, and fragrant spices. Slow-grilled a rosemary and garlic-infused leg of lamb, call a few friends, and have a great time. (Tasted: March 5, 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.
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