Chateau Olivier 2018
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Winemaker Notes
The yield of Cabernet Sauvignon was lower than average due to the small size of the berries. The wines are very expressive and well-structured. The Merlot wines are quite rich, with black fruit aromas and plenty of tannin. Petit Verdot, which needs more water than the other varieties during ripening, contributes a certain tannic vivaciousness.
Blend: 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 46% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot
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Wine Spectator
Quite ripe but well-focused, with tarry edges harnessing the currant and blackberry paste flavors. Licorice and apple wood notes frame the finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
This estate dating to the 12th century is enjoying a new era with recent releases, including this. The wine is dense and structured, packed with dark plum-skin flavors and rich tannins. It has a promising future and shouldn’t be drunk before 2025.
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Decanter
Lovely dark plum colour and rich texture. This has clear austerity and is still as discreet as it felt en primeur. Attractive smoke and even slight tar edging; really needs time to soften and show its more inviting fruits. 30% new oak. Drinking Window 2026 - 2040
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James Suckling
A beautiful, tight young wine, yet it delivers plenty of plum, chocolate, walnut and forest-floor character. It’s full-bodied, but so poised and refined. Nicely crafted. Try after 2023.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2018 Olivier has a wonderfully intense perfume of kirsch, Black Forest cake, black raspberries and cassis, with suggestions of red roses, pencil shavings and underbrush. The medium to full-bodied palate is chock-full of ripe, expressive black and red berry layers, supported by finely grained tannin's and well-knit freshness, finishing with great length and purity.
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For years and years, Chateau Olivier has brought together the present and the past by making wines of great art in an estate that is the stuff of legends... Fashioned by the terroir in which they are rooted, shaped by all those who work the vines, the wines of Chateau Olivier are a magnificent expression of their appellation among the six Classified Growths of Graves in red and white. Skillfully perpetuating the history of the estate, the wine-growers of Olivier help give the wines they produce the same charm and authenticity as its surrounding walls which are nearly a thousand years old.
Our ambition to develop quality further can be seen first and foremost in the dynamic, technically modern methods we use to enhance the terroir. The recent geological discoveries in the two gravel mounds of Olivier have confirmed the richness and diversity of an outstanding viticultural heritage. 11 different terroirs have been identified, passed down by those who once contributed to the building of the fine reputation of Bordeaux’s great growths. The new vat-house, re-designed to bring the very best out of each of the estate’s plots, house the year’s harvest. It is a perfect balance between ancient architecture and state-of-the-art equipment.