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2016 Château Gloria, St Julien, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (60%), Merlot (30%), Petit Verdot (7%), Cabernet Franc (3%)
Ready - youthful (Drink 2022 - 2044)
James Molesworth
93-96/100
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
93/100
Jane Anson MW
94/100
Antonio Galloni
96/100
Product: 20161010598

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2016 Château Gloria, St Julien, Bordeaux

Description

Cabernet Sauvignon 60%, Merlot 30%, Petit Verdot 3% and Cabernet Franc 7%.

Rich and bold, the wine is dark maroon. It’s not shy, and it has big blackcurrant fruit. There is an energy in the mid-palate, real vitality. It finishes with silky fruit and grippy tannins.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2016
Maturity Ready - youthful (2022 - 2044)
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (60%), Merlot (30%), Petit Verdot (7%), Cabernet Franc (3%)
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Château Gloria

Critics reviews

James Molesworth 93-96/100
Shows a flash of mint before giving way to a torrent of blueberry, blackberry and cassis flavors, pushed by energetic acidity and juicy, brambly grip. Plum cake and anise line the finish, along with a flash of tobacco. Lots going on here.
James Molesworth, WineSpectator.com
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 93/100
The 2016 Gloria is comprised of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot aged 14 months in 42% new and 58% one-year-old French oak. Deep garnet-purple in color, it sings of plum preserves, warm cassis and dark chocolate with touches of tobacco, bay leaves and lavender with a waft of dusty soil. The palate is medium-bodied, elegant and savory in the mouth with loads of layers and a lifted finish.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, (Nov 2018)
Jane Anson MW 94/100
Immediately on the nose you get the rich structure of the fruit, rippling with texture and life. It has just the right amount of drama, offering a tight and well-focussed delivery. This is beautiful, showing great underlying freshness and grip with real tension and minerality. Drinking Window 2027-2050.
Drink 2027 - 2050
Jane Anson MW, Decanter.com
Antonio Galloni 96/100
The 2016 Gloria is one of the undisputed stars of this vintage. Rich, deep and explosive, the 2016 possesses tremendous intensity in all of its dimensions. Sweet red cherry, tobacco, menthol, liquorice and dried rose petal all add complexity. In 2016 Gloria is a real head-turner. It should be a fabulous value as well. There is not much else to say.
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Jan 2019)

About this wine

Cabernet Sauvignon

The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
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Saint-Julien

Saint-Julien

St Julien is the smallest of the ‘Big Four’ Médoc communes although, without any First Growths, it is recognised to be the most consistent of the main communes with many châteaux turning out impressive wines year after year. The wines can be judged as much by texture as flavour, and there is a sleek, wholesome character to the best. At their very finest they combine Margaux’s elegance and refinement with Pauillac’s power and substance.
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Chateau Gloria

Château Gloria is an unclassified St-Julien property that produces clarets that equal in quality those from the more prestigious classed growths. Henri Martin, a cooper by upbringing, took over the property in 1942 and began purchasing plots of vineyards from classed growth properties such as Gruaud-Larose, Talbot, Lagrange and Léoville-Barton. By the mid 1960s he had 50 hectares spread across the appellation. In 1982 he purchased Château St-Pierre and thus realised his lifetime ambition of owning a Grand Cru Classé property.
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