2021 Château Séraphine, Pomerol, Bordeaux
Critics reviews
The 2021 Séraphine, from a site opposite the athletics ground in Pomerol, was lightly touched by the frost, according to owner Martine Krajewski. Daughter/winemaker Charlotte told me that it was picked September 24 to October 4 at 30hL/ha, and matured in 40% new oak, with a clay amphora used for the old Cabernet Franc. This has quite an aromatic bouquet, one of the most floral that I have encountered in recent years, revealing touches of cinnamon and dark chocolate with time. The palate is medium-bodied and finely tuned, with sappy red fruit. A classically styled Pomerol with an elegant, understated finish that lingers in the mouth and a saline aftertaste. Very fine. Around 3,000 bottles. (13.5% alcohol)
Drink 2028 - 2048
Neal Martin, vinous.com, (May 2022)
A delicious slice of Pomerol, leans into the vintage by going for elegant, finessed fruit rather than overly intense extraction, but you'll get plenty of supple and fleshy raspberry and cassis fruit, and curls of black chocolate, spiced cocoa bean and black truffle. 30hl/h yield, 40% new oak, 5% amphora, 15% press wine.
Drink 2026 - 2042
Jane Anson, janeanson.com (May 2022)
Very dark crimson. Smells both darker-fruited and a little riper than the Clos Cantenac. Pure cassis and a touch of cedary oak but the fruit is the star. With an attractive dusty quality that adds complexity and hints at freshness and textural finesse. Deliciously dry and chalky tannins, like layers of paper. The amphora component has clearly made its mark, in a good way, highlighting the fruit and not thickening the tannins, as oak often can do. Much too young to drink but surprisingly drinkable!
Drink 2026 - 2033
James Lawther, jancisrobinson.com (May 2022)
A strong effort in a challenging year, the 2021 Séraphine offers up pure and fruit-driven aromas of raspberries, plums and cherries, followed by a medium to full-bodied palate that's quite rich and layered by the standards of the vintage, exhibiting powdery tannins and good persistence on the finish.
William Kelley, Wine Advocate (Apr 2022)
About this WINE
Chateau Seraphine
Pomerol
Pomerol is the smallest of Bordeaux's major appellations, with about 150 producers and approximately 740 hectares of vineyards. It is home to many bijou domaines, many of which produce little more than 1,000 cases per annum.
Both the topography and architecture of the region is unremarkable, but the style of the wines is most individual. The finest vineyards are planted on a seam of rich clay which extends across the gently-elevated plateau of Pomerol, which runs from the north-eastern boundary of St Emilion. On the sides of the plateau, the soil becomes sandier and the wines lighter.
There is one satellite region to the immediate north, Lalande-de-Pomerol whose wines are stylistically very similar, if sometimes lacking the finesse of its neighbour. There has never been a classification of Pomerol wines.
Recommended Châteaux : Ch. Pétrus, Vieux Ch. Certan, Le Pin, Ch. L’Eglise-Clinet, Ch. La Conseillante, Ch. L’Evangile, Ch. Lafleur, Trotanoy, Ch. Nenin, Ch. Beauregard, Ch. Feytit-Clinet, Le Gay.
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.
In St.Emilion and Pomerol it withstands the moist clay rich soils far better than Cabernet grapes, and at it best produces opulently rich, plummy clarets with succulent fruitcake-like nuances. Le Pin, Pétrus and Clinet are examples of hedonistically rich Merlot wines at their very best. It also plays a key supporting role in filling out the middle palate of the Cabernet-dominated wines of the Médoc and Graves.
Merlot is now grown in virtually all wine growing countries and is particularly successful in California, Chile and Northern Italy.
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The 2021 Séraphine, from a site opposite the athletics ground in Pomerol, was lightly touched by the frost, according to owner Martine Krajewski. Daughter/winemaker Charlotte told me that it was picked September 24 to October 4 at 30hL/ha, and matured in 40% new oak, with a clay amphora used for the old Cabernet Franc. This has quite an aromatic bouquet, one of the most floral that I have encountered in recent years, revealing touches of cinnamon and dark chocolate with time. The palate is medium-bodied and finely tuned, with sappy red fruit. A classically styled Pomerol with an elegant, understated finish that lingers in the mouth and a saline aftertaste. Very fine. Around 3,000 bottles. (13.5% alcohol)
Drink 2028 - 2048
Neal Martin, vinous.com, (May 2022)
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