Chateau Lespault-Martillac (Futures Pre-Sale) 2021
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James
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Run by the Bernard family of Domaine de Chevalier, this estate on the edge of Martillac has produced a wine that is dominated by juicy Merlot with a high 13% of Petit Verdot. The wine is rich, structured and likely to age well.
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James Suckling
Roasted red pepper, mineral, currants and chili chocolate. Textured, juicy and fluid on the palate, showing good intensity of fruit from this lighter vintage. Layered and extensive finish. Drink or hold.
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Dunnuck - Decanter
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Robert
Parker - Decanter
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Jeb
Dunnuck
Starting with the 2009 vintage, the owners, the Jean-Claude Bolleau family, have entrusted management of this estate to Domaine de Chevalier, a Graves great growth. Olivier Bernard and his team have undertaken to make this wine with an outstanding potential one of the jewels of the Pessac-Leognan appellation. In order to do so, they use the same methods as the finest great growths: ploughing the soil, sustainable viticulture, plot-by-plot vineyard management, hand picking and careful sorting of grapes, their transfer by gravity flow into small 50-80 hectolitre fermentation vats, finely-tuned extraction, malolactic fermentation, ageing in barrel on the lees, etc.