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2021 Château Le Prieuré, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot (91%), Cabernet Franc (9%)
Not ready (Drink 2026 - 2043)
Jane Anson MW
89-90/100
Neal Martin
91-93/100
Product: 20218145833

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2021 Château Le Prieuré, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Description

Merlot 91%, Cabernet Franc 9%

This estate is now under the wing of the Suravenir insurance group, which is also sponsoring the great improvements at Calon Ségur. Pénélope Godefroy remains as winemaker. There is plenty of untapped potential here, with a variety of plots close to Troplong Mondot, Trotte Vieille and Pavie Macquin, among others. This wine plays to the strengths of the vineyard’s limestone soils, with bright, modern and sapid fruit notes interwoven with shiny, sleek tannins. This is a very persuasive wine, definitively from St Emilion’s côtes, and meticulously constructed. Drink 2024-2036.

Our score: 16.5/20

Berry Bros. & Rudd, April 2022

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2021
Maturity Not ready (2026 - 2043)
Grape List Merlot (91%), Cabernet Franc (9%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Le Prieuré, Saint-Emilion

Critics reviews

Jane Anson MW 89-90/100

This goes long on powerful sappy fruits that smack of austerity and yet manage to turn moreish with salty-cracker salinity by the close of play. A big tannic frame, needs to soften further over ageing. 16.1hl/h yield, tasted twice. Vincent Millet director, Penelope Godefroy winemaker, Jean-Claude Berrouet consultant.

Drink 2024 - 2034
Jane Anson MW, JaneAnson.com (May 2022)
Neal Martin 91-93/100

The 2021 Le Prieuré has as well-defined bouquet with lifted, quite floral red berry fruit mixed with subtle loamy scents. The palate is well-defined with finely chiselled tannins, taut and fresh with a sensual finish. Not a powerful Saint-Émilion, yet this continues this estate's strong run of form.

Drink 2027 - 2045
Neal Martin, Vinous.com (May 2022)

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-Emilion

Saint-Emilion

First officially classified in 1954, St-Émilion is one of Bordeaux's largest winemaking appellations, producing more wine than Listrac, Moulis, St Estèphe, Pauillac, St Julien and Margaux combined. Many of the region's finest vineyards can be found atop the steep limestone slopes of the village itself, although a fledgling band of garagiste producers are eschewing terroir to make small-batch, deeply-concentrated wines from their homes.
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