2019 | Les Asteries | Saint-Emilion Grand Cru (Half Bottle)

Dark garnet colour with a youthful purple hue. Intense and earthy with crushed chalk, black truffle, wild blackberry, cassis, tobacco and fine toast. Very good desnity and concentration, powdery tannin with a fresh vein of acidity with layers of earthy and truffle infused dark fruit with gorgeous complexity and layers leading to a tremendously long and powerful finish.

Producer Information

This Single Vineyard wine is made from a single hectare on 'Astéries' (rock limestone) soil between Chateau Fonroque and Clos Fourtet. The vines survived the frost of 1956 and are up to eighty years old. 'Panachéed' in the old style (Merlot interspersed with Cabernet Franc to ensure easy blending in the days before pumps) they are cropped down to four bunches per vine to reflect the 'terroir' of the parcel. Unlike most of the wines of the Chateau, Les Astéries exhibits a strain of minerality that emphasises the rock like sub-soil. The wine is pure vineyard rather than a 'winemaker's' wine. Huge colour, high extraction of black fruits, totally hedonistic palate but almost Saint-Estèphe grip on the finish, fresh and very, very long.

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