"This great Bordeaux wine has a ruby color with black highlights and expresses woody notes as well as very ripe black berries. The supple attack is quickly followed by a powerful and concentrated body." (Maison de Luze)
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Eye
Dark ruby red color
Nose
Elegant, fresh, and fruity bouquet with subtle hints of spice
Mouth
Ample and silky, with crisp tannins and a fresh, lingering finish of small black berries and a hint of vanilla.
Serve
At 16-18°C
Open
1 hour before
Drink from
2022
Drink before
2032
Food and wine pairings
Enjoy with roast turkey, Rossini tournedos with porcini mushrooms, or a chocolate tart.
Bettane & Desseauve
Rated estate (2015 guide) Selected (An estate or winery that impressed us with one or more of its wines, but where we are unable to give an overall opinion on the style of the entire range)
About the estate:
Pomerol is full of little-known treasures which, at their best, easily rival the wines of its most prestigious châteaux. A stone's throw from L'Évangile, the Maillet area slopes gently down to the Barbane stream that separates Pomerol from Néac, with some very appealing small artisan wines such as Franc-Maillet. The Arpin family applies sound farming principles to their viticulture and wisely isolates a very old Merlot vineyard on fairly clayey soil. Its wine is every bit as good as that of Petrus or Trotanoy in a great vintage, and Jean-Luc Thunevin is right to stock it in his Saint-Émilion shops.
Guide Hachette des vins
Rated estate (2018 guide) Award-winning wines (This producer's wines are regularly awarded by the guide)
About the estate:
Upon his return from World War I, Jean-Baptiste Arpin purchased 1 hectare in Pomerol, in the Maillet area. Today, his grandsons and great-grandsons Gérard and Gaël farm 38 hectares in Pomerol, Saint-Émilion, Montagne and Lalande, regularly producing excellent wines.
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Rated estate (2005 guide) Selected (Please note that this guide is a ranking and, as such, all the estates listed in it, even those without stars, represent, in our opinion, the excellence of French production.)
About the estate:
Located in the Maillet district, which gave its name to the Château Franc-Maillet estate, Franc-Maillet has belonged to the Arpin family for nearly a century. Over the past five years, the wine has been steadily improving, particularly a prestigious cuvée named Jean-Baptiste, which is beautifully full-bodied and undeniably elegant. The wines: in both Château Franc-Maillet vintages, the latest vintages show steady and very interesting progress. The 2000s are deep, fleshy, full-bodied wines with very ripe tannins that are not dry. The Jean-Baptiste cuvée is remarkably intense. Vieux Château Gachet, a Lalande-de-Pomerol, is also flavorful and refined in 2000.
Customer rating
3/5
based on 1 review
Note and opinion by Mr. MARC-HENRI B. Published on January 8, 2025
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