Château La Gaffelière 2019

Herkunftsland: Frankreich

Region: Bordeaux

Anbaugebiet: Saint-Emilion

Rebsorten: 60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Franc

Rebenalter: 35 Jahre

Klassifizierung: 1er Grand Cru Classé B

Trinkreife: 2025 bis 2060

Jeb Dunnuck bewertete (05/2023) Château La Gaffelère 2019 wie folgt: “The finest wine I’ve tasted from this estate, the 2019 Château La Gaffelière is pure Saint-Emilion brilliance and offers a complex, intense bouquet of red and black fruits, iron, truffly earth, tobacco, and bouquet garni. This carries to a medium to full-bodied, pure, layered, elegant, yet concentrated 2019 with perfect tannins, plenty of mid-palate depth, and a gorgeous finish. It shows the perfumed, elegant, already accessible style of this great vintage (and I thoroughly enjoyed this bottle), but it’s going to evolve gracefully over the coming 30 years or more. Bravo! ” – 97 Punkte

Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate bewertete (04/2022) Château La Gaffelère 2019 wie folgt: “The 2019 La Gaffelière wafts from the glass with a rich bouquet of blackberries and cherries mingled with subtle hints of burning embers and loamy soil that’s framed by a deft application of creamy new oak. Medium to full-bodied, deep and seamless, it’s a concentrated, vibrant wine built around bright acids and fine, powdery tannins. Its vivid fruit tones and classical balance make this Cabernet Franc-rich blend a promising candidate for sustained bottle age. Anyone who has tasted the great wines this estate produced in the 1950s and 1960s knows how great this site can be; and with stricter selection as well as the elimination of fruit from vines growing on the plain from the blend, that potential appears to be being unleashed at last..” – 95 Punkte

James Suckling bewertete (02/2022) Château La Gaffelère 2019 wie folgt: ” A vibrant, fragrant red with aromas of blackberries, currants, walnuts and mint chocolate. Medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins. Pretty walnut notes on the polished finish. Fantastic length. Driven acidity and focus. Try in 2025. ” – 96 Punkte

Jeff Leve bewertete (07/2022) Château La Gaffelère 2019 wie folgt: “Showing better in the bottle than it did in the barrel, and it was already quite good in barrel, the wine pops with tobacco leaf, flowers, ripe red fruits, espresso, and thyme in the nose. Rich, fresh, vibrant, and with ample flesh and sweetness, the wine finishes with loads of sweet, ripe, dark red and black fruits. Give it a few years in the bottle, and it will really be rocking’! La Gaffeliere has really been on quite a roll since the 2015 vintage. Since 2015, each vintage seems to have gotten just a bit better, and 2019 clearly continues that trend. Drink from 2026-2050” – 96 Punkte

Neil Martin bewertete (12/2021) Château La Gaffelère 2019 wie folgt: “The 2019 La Gaffelière has a wonderful bouquet of mineral-rich black and red fruit and sous-bois, a little tobacco and pencil box emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, fleshy and ripe. Perfectly balanced, leading to an almost Left Bank, graphite-tinged finish courtesy of the 40% Cabernet Franc, the 2019 continues the purple patch of this Saint-Émilion stalwart. No doubt a wine that will give 30 to 40 years of drinking pleasure” – 96 Punkte

Serviervorschlag: 2 Stunden dekantieren, Trinktemperatur 18°C.