2009 Ch La Clotte Grand Cru St Emilion - 12x75cl
06A9CLOT _ 2009 - Ch La Clotte Grand Cru St Emilion - 12x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château la Clotte
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Drinking 2014 - 2024
  • Case size 12x75cl
  • Available Now

2009 - Ch La Clotte Grand Cru St Emilion - 12x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château la Clotte
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Drinking 2014 - 2024
  • Case size 12x75cl
  • Available Now
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Case price: £542.14 Duty Paid inc VAT

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Case price: £542.14 Duty Paid inc VAT
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  • Robert Parker, April 2010, Score: 92-94

    One of my favorite St.-Emilion boutique vineyards, La Clotte's 10 acres of vines average 40-yearsof age. The 2009 (80% Merlot and the rest mostly Cabernet Franc) offers a beautifully sweet, ripe, opulent texture (typical for this estate) in addition to a dense purple color, and abundant notes of licorice, smoked herbs, meat, and black fruits. Full-bodied and viscous with great precision and fresh acids (the paradoxical characteristic of this vintage), it combines enormous fruit and extraction with off the chart tannins as well as remarkable finesse and elegance. This 2009 should drink well for two decades or more.

  • Decanter, April 2010, Score: 16.5

    Fine, fresh with a generous expression of red-berry fruit. Limestone terroir apparent. Elegant and precise. Drink 2014-2024.

  • Wine Spectator, April 2010, Score: 89-92

    Tar and blueberry aromas, with a wet earth undertone. Full-bodied, with a solid core of fruit and a medium chewy finish. A little loosely knit now, but should come together nicely.

Producer

Château la Clotte

Region

St Emilion

South of Pomerol lies the medieval, perched village of St Emilion. Surrounding St Emilion are vines that produce round, rich and often hedonistic wines. Despite a myriad of soil types, two main ones dominate - the gravelly, limestone slopes that delve down to the valley from the plateau and the valley itself which is comprised of limestone, gravel, clay and sand. Despite St Emilion's popularity today, it was not until the 1980s to early 1990s that attention was brought to this region. Robert Parker, the famous wine critic, began reviewing their Merlot-dominated wines and giving them hefty scores. The rest is history as they say. Similar to the Médoc, there is a classification system in place which dates from 1955 and outlines several levels of quality. These include its regional appellation of St Emilion, St Emilion Grand Cru, St Emilion Grand Cru Classé and St Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé, which is further divided into "A" (Ausone and Cheval Blanc) and "B" (including Angélus, Canon, Figeac and a handful of others). To ensure better accuracy, the classification is redone every 10 years enabling certain châteaux to be upgraded or downgraded depending on on the quality of their more recent vintages.

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