Château de Parenchère - Bordeaux Supérieur Cuvée Raphaël 2018
Bordeaux
Red
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Drink or Keep
14/20
Bettane & Desseauve
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90/100
James Suckling
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89/100
Decanter
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90/100
Wine Enthusiast
"Top quality-price Bordeaux
"We have here a Bordeaux that clearly deserves a generous score. The nose is subtle and clean, with notes of plum and blackcurrant and fine dark chocolate. The palate is supple and unctuous, with fine tannins, and a successful integration of 25% new wood for the 12-month ageing period. Some 'micro-oxygenation' - sending fine bubbles through the barrels - has broken down the tannins a little more, and it works here." (Decanter 2020) An incredible cuvée for its price!
Features
Estate
Château de Parenchère
Cuvée
Cuvée Raphaël
Vintage
2018
Designation
Bordeaux Supérieur
Region
Bordeaux
Grape varieties
65% Merlot - 35% Cabernet Sauvignon
Terroirs
Clay-limestone soils, with 20% of the vineyard planted on a north-east facing slope; the rest is planted on a well-sloped hillside allowing good water drainage.
Viticulture
Reasoned
Harvest
At optimum maturity
Winemaking
In 100 HL cement vats, which are wider than they are tall, to ensure good marc immersion. Unstalked grapes are harvested at low temperature, only from dawn until late morning. They are further cooled to allow cold pre-fermentation maceration for up to a week. The fermentations are carried out at no more than 28°, with the addition of oxygen under the marc (microoxygenation). Once alcoholic fermentation is complete, the wines are reheated and macerated at 30° for one to two weeks, before being racked after tasting.
Breeding
14 months in stave-oak barrels from the Tronçais forest (only), using the micro-oxygenation technique.
Alcohol content
14.5%
Tasting & pairing
Eye
Intense crimson hue
Nose
Delivers great freshness, with fruity notes of ripe cherry blended with fine, subtle woodiness
Mouth
Harmonious, reconciling power and structure with freshness and omnipresent fruit, tannins that are present but mellow.
Serve
AT 16-17°C
Apogée
2022-2029
Drink before
2030
Food and wine pairing
Enjoy with red meats, game and cheese...
Château de Parenchère
Bordeaux
Expert opinion
Bettane & Desseauve
Rated 14/20 (Good wine)
Domaine rated (guide 2021) 1*Star (A serious, recommendable production, in line with what one has the right to expect from its appellation(s))
About the wine:
Ambitious, high-quality ageing, perhaps a little pushed in terms of tannins, still a little austere. Good, ripe, neat substance. The whole lacks a little elegance. To be kept for a few years.
About the domain :
Bought in 1958 by Moroccan-born Raphaël Gazaniol, the estate now covers 180 hectares, 70 of which are planted with vines on the best exposed plots. A total of 32 different parcels are vinified separately and selected either for the base wine, already of the highest quality, or for the famous Cuvée Raphaël, a striking demonstration that a simple Bordeaux appellation can produce magnificent wines, or the Cuvée Esprit, produced only when the vintage lends itself to it, based mainly on Cabernet aged 14 months in new barrels. The production is completed by white and clairet Bordeaux. Wines of character, balance and charm. A coherent, consistent range.
Decanter
Wine rated (2020 guide) 89/100
About the wine:
Here we have a Bordeaux that clearly deserves a generous score. The nose is subtle and clean, with notes of plum and blackcurrant and fine dark chocolate. The palate is supple and unctuous, with fine tannins, and a successful integration of 25% new wood for the 12-month ageing period. Some "micro-oxygenation" - sending fine bubbles through the barrels - has broken down the tannins a little more, and it works here.
Guide Hachette des vins
Domaine noté (guide 2021) Award-winning wines (The wines of this producer are regularly awarded by the guide)
About the domain :
On the borders of the Gironde and Dordogne departments, a Périgord-style château, built in 1570 by Pierre de Parenchère, governor of the Sainte-Foy-la-Grande region, and a vast cru (67 ha of vines), regular in quality. Raphaël Gazaniol, a winegrower repatriated from Morocco, acquired it in 1958, then passed it on to his son Jean and granddaughter Julia. In 2005, a Swedish wine enthusiast, Mr. Landin, who also owns a vineyard in Montalcino in Tuscany, bought the estate.
Guide des Vins Gault & Millau
Domaine rated 1*Star (Serious production)
About the domain :
Located not far from Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, in the extreme east of the Bordeaux region, the Château de Parenchère vineyard benefits from a clay-limestone terroir with a very high clay content. The sixty or so hectares planted with red grape varieties are dominated by Merlot (50%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (40%) - the latter on the best exposed plots - backed up by Cabernet Franc. Planting densities are gradually being increased to over 5,000 vines per hectare. A white wine has been added to the range for several vintages now.
Wine Enthusiast
Rated wine (guide 2021) 90/100
Domaine noté (guide 2020) Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Wine Enthusiast)
About the wine:
Aged for a year in wood, this wine offers rich tannins and a dense structure. Flavors of dark chocolate and licorice give an impression of firm extraction that needs to blow for the wine to develop. Drink from 2022.
James Suckling
Rated wine (guide 2021) 90/100
About the wine:
A juicy red with plum and berry notes, medium body and soft, attractive tannins. For drinking or cellaring.
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