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Ch. La Croix St Estephe
Cabernet Sauvignon Blend
Cabernet Sauvignon lends itself particularly well in blends with Merlot. This is actually the archetypal Bordeaux blend, though in different proportions in the sub-regions and sometimes topped up with Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.
In the Médoc and Graves the percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend can range from 95% (Mouton-Rothschild) to as low as 40%. It is particularly suited to the dry, warm, free- draining, gravel-rich soils and is responsible for the redolent cassis characteristics as well as the depth of colour, tannic structure and pronounced acidity of Médoc wines. However 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wines can be slightly hollow-tasting in the middle palate and Merlot with its generous, fleshy fruit flavours acts as a perfect foil by filling in this cavity.
In St-Emilion and Pomerol, the blends are Merlot dominated as Cabernet Sauvignon can struggle to ripen there - when it is included, it adds structure and body to the wine. Sassicaia is the most famous Bordeaux blend in Italy and has spawned many imitations, whereby the blend is now firmly established in the New World and particularly in California and Australia.
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This has real concentration of black fruit with a really rich and brooding palate packed with rich black fruit, dark spice and plum.
Laura Atkinson, Fine Wine Account Manager
This classic, broad shouldered St Estèphe is actually the second wine of the well-known Cru Bourgeois Ch. Le Crock, and is made by one of the best winemakers in Bordeaux. The stellar quality of the 2010 vintage is manifest here from then outset - the colour is dark and rich, there is a touch of glycerine in the glass and the nose is a heady blend of ripe berry fruit with notes of cedar wood and rosemary lending complexity. The palate is strikingly pure with ripe fruit and silky tannins in perfect harmony. This is delicious now with shoulder of lamb.
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