2018 | Vieux Chateau Mazerat | Saint-Emilion Grand Cru (Half Bottle)

On the nose you find spicy aromas meshed with roasted dark plums, peppery herbs, flowers, rocks and stones.

Reviews:

• Vinous: The 2018 Vieux Château Mazeret is exotic on the nose, especially in the context of the vintage, presenting very ripe, brash scents of black cherries, violets, dates and flecks of dark chocolate. The palate is medium-bodied with a sweet opening, black cherries intermingling with hoisin and touches of brown spice. It wrests back some control toward the finish, but there is a sense of dryness that concerns me.

• James Suckling: Showing much better in bottle than it did while in barrel, the wine is dark in color. On the nose you find spicy aromas meshed with roasted dark plums, peppery herbs, flowers, rocks and stones. On the palate, the wine shows off its layers of lush, mineral driven, dark pit fruits, oyster shell, spice, espresso and cocoa on the mid-palate and in the long finish.
  

Producer Information

The 5 hectare Saint Emilion vineyard of Vieux Chateau Mazerat is planted to 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. You can divide the vineyard into two separate terroirs. In the larger section, which is where the majority of the vineyard is located, the terroir is clay over limestone soil. Here, you also find some very impressive old vines which date all the way back to 1947. The smaller second of their vineyards is located just between Chateau Angelus and the now famous vineyard of Jonathan Maltus used to produce Le Dome. That terroir is sand and Crasse de Fer soils. The vineyard is planted to a vine density of 5,795 vines per hectare. Because no actual cellars or chateau for Vieux Chateau Mazerat, the wine of Vieux Chateau Mazerat is made at their other estate, Chateau Teyssier. Everything moves by gravity in their modern cellars. Vinification takes place in temperature-controlled wood vats. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrels and the wine is aged in an average of 80% new, French oak barrels.

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