2017 Château Ormes de Pez, St Estèphe, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Merlot (51%), Cabernet Sauvignon (42%), Cabernet Franc (6%), Petit Verdot (1%)
Ready - youthful (Drink 2022 - 2039)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
87-89/100
Product: 20178007326

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2017 Château Ormes de Pez, St Estèphe, Bordeaux

Description

This is a blend of 42 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 51 percent Merlot, six percent Cabernet Franc and one percent Petit Verdot. Vivid crimson in colour, the aromatics are delicate with notes of blackcurrant, spice and coffee. There is an attractive weight and texture to this wine, grippy tannins married with juicy red fruit. It finishes long with a persistent, chalky finish.

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2017
Maturity Ready - youthful (2022 - 2039)
Grape List Merlot (51%), Cabernet Sauvignon (42%), Cabernet Franc (6%), Petit Verdot (1%)
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Château Les Ormes de Pez

Critics reviews

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 87-89/100
A barrel sample blended of 51% Merlot, 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2017 Ormes de Pez has a deep garnet-purple color and gives up notes of freshly crushed redcurrants, red and black plums and mulberries with touches of rose hip tea and tilled soil. Medium-bodied and elegantly styled, with approachable, chewy tannins, it delivers nice harmony with plenty of character.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, (Mar 2019)

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Saint-Estèphe

Saint-Estèphe

Saint-Estèphe is the northernmost of the most important communes of the Médoc, bordering Pauillac on its southernmost border, with only a gully and stream separating it from Ch. Lafite Rothschild. The wines can appear austere in youth, but the best typically display good depth of colour, pronounced acidity and tannins in youth, and are exceptionally long-lived. At their best, they are the equal of almost any Bordeaux.
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Chateau Ormes de Pez

Château Les Ormes de Pez is one of St-Estèphe`s leading Cru Bourgeois properties. It was bought by Jean-Charles Cazes in 1936 and is now owned and run by Jean-Michel Cazes. The latter owns Lynch-Bages The estate is located just outside the village of Pez in the northern part of the St-Estèphe commune.
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