Château Saint-Pierre - Grand Cru Classé 2014

Bettane & Desseauve

About the domain :

This cru, owned by the Triaud family, has joined the best of Saint-Julien in recent vintages, sometimes even surpassing them in quality, thanks to its very old vines averaging 50 years, ideally located in the heart of the village. The wine, which has always been dense, tight and powerful, continues to gain in immediate elegance with each vintage, with a better-integrated woodiness, and always a texture of old vines that makes it equal in this respect to the great Second Classifieds, and even to the First Classifieds. This is one of the most perfect expressions of the appellation's originality, at prices that are still accessible.

Guide Hachette des vins

About the wine:

This wine impresses with its intense, dark color, matched by a powerful bouquet, still in the grip of barrel ageing - half new -: licorice, vanilla, toasty notes; this beautiful woodiness also dominates the palate, even if blackcurrant and red fruit do manage to break through. The palate stands out for its fleshiness, volume, density, tight yet velvety tannins and persistence. All the qualities of a great wine for laying down.

About the domain :

This ancient cru (17th c.) has seen some dark times, having been totally dispersed following several estates. Henri Martin reconstituted it in 1982. The vineyard covers 17 ha, planted on a fine gravelly terroir resting on a sandy-clay layer. Henri Martin's daughter Françoise and her husband Jean-Louis Triaud, who ran the estate, handed over to their son Jean in 2016.

Robert Parker - Wine Advocate

About the wine:

The 2014 Saint-Pierre was one of the surprises of the Saint Julien appellation, a wine that blossomed throughout its ageing and in bottle to the point where it surpassed its companion, the 2014 Château Gloria. It has a more floral bouquet: vibrant and energetic with fine minerality. The palate is medium-bodied, a silver pearl of acidity, energetic and intense with tobacco and graphite on the finish. For me, Saint-Pierre has the upper hand this year and should give two decades of drinking pleasure.

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

About the domain :

For a long time, this classified growth was the least known of Saint-Julien's vineyards. It was bought in 1982 by Henri Martin, owner of the famous Cru Bourgeois Château Gloria, who reconstituted the terroir as it existed at the time of classification. His daughter Françoise, her husband and Jean-Louis Triaud, former president of the Girondins de Bordeaux, now assisted by their children, have, with the help of Rémi di Constanzo, the cellar master, transformed the estate in recent years. Equipped with high-performance winemaking equipment, vintage after vintage it seems to be gaining the purity it sometimes lacks.

Wine Spectator

Jancis Robinson