Château Valandraud, 1er grand cru classé 'B' Saint-Emilion 2022
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Château Valandraud, 1er grand cru classé 'B' Saint-Emilion 2022

£220.00
ALC 15.5%
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Unapologetically big in style, this is oozes notes of blue and purple crumble, spice and cassis. Oaky and brash this is a powerful wine with pronounced ripe tannins. Valandraud have turned the dial up to 11 on this, enjoy! 5-15 years.

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Details

France, Bordeaux, Saint-Emilion & Right Bank

Red Wine

Merlot

Typically Merlot, with a dash of Cabernet Franc & Cabernet Sauvignon

Full-bodied

Drink or Keep

2022

15.5%

Domaine Beauséjour

Reviews
Vintage guide

The 2023 vintage looks good but the yields are down, some warm damp weather in summer means the Cabernets have out performed the more delicate Merlot. The wines of 2022 are excellent showing a lovely balance of ripeness and juiciness that give them great balance. The 2021 vintage has made wines that are medium bodied with good freshness, in a similar style to 2017. The 2020 vintage yielded wines that are aromatic and concentrated, quite big in structure with freshness and balance. The wines of 2019 are very concentrated, fresh, ripe and plentiful, all in all a very well regarded vintage. 2018 was a very good vintage in the end but mildew, hail, and a heatwave all served to reduce yields. The harvest across the region took place in near ideal conditions. 2017 is good in terms of quality but short on quantity, following frosts in the Spring that decimated certain properties. 2016 is a worthy successor to 2015, on a par qualitatively and looking very promising across all wine types. A hot summer but with cool nights has produced wines with fruit and freshness. 2015 is exceptionally good across the region for reds, especially the Right Bank, Pessac-Léognan, dry whites (better for Sauvignon than Sémillon) and sweeties: it is certainly the best vintage since 2010. 2014 is a very good Cabernet vintage, particularly in the Médoc where the wines are fresh with fine tannins. Overall, ripeness levels are good and so are quantities.
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Domaine Beauséjour

Domaine Beauséjour

The fourth generation to run the family Domaine Beausejour, Philippe Trotignon sold the family domaine in June 2022 to brothers Arnaud and Albéric Lechat.

Arnaud's background in in retail and Albéric spent 10 years in the army both were looking for a new challenge and wished to get back closer to nature. Little has changed at this 20 ha estate, 12 of which are planted with Sauvignon Blanc. The rest, although mostly planted with Gamay, include a small but growing area of Malbec which they blend 70:30 with the local Cabernet Franc to make the red version of the new Touraine Chenonceaux cru.

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