Winemaker Notes
Blend: 100% Petit Verdot
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Floral and perfumed nose of violets, dried roses, raspberries, chocolate and dark cherries. Full-bodied, with muscular yet polished tannins. Compact. Better from 2025.
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Wine Enthusiast
A rare example of 100% Petit Verdot shows a fine example of how this grape now ripens more easily in an era of climate change. It is rich, seriously structured, balancing black fruits and juiciness. The wine is complex and rich, will be ready to drink from 2024.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2020 Chateau La Freynelle Cuvée Petit Verdot is well-built and delicious. This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of ustic spices, black fruits, hints of licorice, and herbal notes. Serve it with a slow-cooked, savory lamb stew. (Tasted: July 3, 2024, 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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