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2020 Chateau Les Gravieres 750 ml

Country: France /

Region: Bordeaux /

Style: Wine /

Size: 750 ml /

Vintage: 2020 /

Sku: 4442908

The Wine Advocate95 Points
Vinous94 Points
James Suckling92 Points
$27.99 Reg. $31.99

Details

Details

The 2020 Chateau Les Gravieres offers a darker, richer, medium to full-bodied style as well as notes of black cherries, plums, toasted spice, and tobacco. Made from 100% Merlot that spent 14 months in 60% new French oak, it has beautiful integration of its fruit, tannins, and acidity, plenty of mid-palate depth, and a great finish. It's well worth seeking out and has a solid decade of prime drinking ahead of it. Best After 2023.

• 100% Merlot •

Suggested Food Pairing:

Beef
Game
Lamb

Reviews

The Wine Advocate95 Points
Vinous94 Points
James Suckling92 Points
WA The Wine Advocate: 95 Points
Made from 100% Merlot, the 2020 Les Gravieres has a deep purple-black color, rolling out of the glass with ready-for-business scents of plum preserves, baked black cherries and blueberry pie, plus hints of violets, clove oil and camphor, with a waft of tree bark. The medium to full-bodied palate delivers velvety tannins and a lively backbone to support the generous black and blue fruits, finishing long and spicy.
V Vinous: 94 Points
The 2020 Les Gravières is a powerful, bold Saint-Émilion loaded with intense mineral and savory notes that play off a core of inky dark fruit. Blueberry jam, gravel, smoke, lavender, licorice and cloves add gravitas. Les Gravières is another impressive wine in the trio of 2020s I tasted from proprietor Denis Barraud. I very much like the vibrancy and tension here.
JS James Suckling: 92 Points
Notes of ripe plums and blackberries with licorice, dried orange peel and roselle flowers. Some cedar, too. Medium- to full-bodied with chewy tannins and an array of crunchy blueberries and dried herbs on the mid-palate. Flavorful and juicy yet slightly tight. Best After 2024