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Château Balestard La Tonnelle
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2024
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, cocoa, espresso, flowers, and plums are displayed in the perfume. The wine is medium-bodied, soft, and round, quickly focusing you on its core of sweet, ripe, vibrant, creamy, deep, red pit fruits, and chocolate. The wine blends 56% Merlot, 27% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 17% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2028-2040. 91-93 Pts 758 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2022
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Espresso, licorice, smoke, cherries, and cocoa show in the nose. Lush, supple, fresh, and creamy, the black cherries with their salty chocolate in the finish hits the spot. You can enjoy this on release, or age it for more complexity. Drink from 2025-2040. 586 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Cherry liqueur, plums, and espresso with bitter cocoa notes are in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, soft, fresh, creamy, fruit-filled palate. Drink from 2025-2038. 92-94 Pts. 1,837 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, espresso, smoke, flowers and dark chocolate create the perfume. On the palate, the wine is supple, creamy and fresh with sweet, minty plums and a light touch of chocolate at the end of the finish. Drink from 2024-2038. 628 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Espresso, plums, cherries, and flowers are already on the nose of this soft, forward, silky, fresh, medium-bodied, vibrant wine. This is just about ready to go with its fruity, plummy, cocoa-infused finish. Drink from 2023-2037. 90-92 971 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Much better in the bottle than I expected, the wine pops with its display of sweet, ripe, plums, savory herbs, crushed stone, licorice, and smoke. It is even better on the palate with its lush textures, and multiple layers of sweet, ripe fruits, along with its accents of chocolate, spice, salt, and espresso. The luscious finish seals the deal! Drink from 2023-2045. 1,327 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023With a strong touch of oak right out of the gate, the deeply colored wine also brings you incense, spice box, licorice and black with blue fruit. Forward, lush and round, the finish is all luscious red berries and espresso notes. 90-92 Pts 1,016 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fresh, juicy, sweet, soft and vibrant, the wine is loaded with layers of black and red plums, cocoa, dark chocolate, espresso and flowers. The medium-bodied finish lingers with elegant, ripe, fruits, earthy nuances and freshness. There is nice lift and energy here. Drink from 2024-2037. 998 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Medium-bodied, fresh, bright and chewy, with ripe red berries and cocoa from start to finish, the wine leaves you with lift and freshness along with more red fruits and a hit of cocoa in the finish. 90-92 Pts 2,899 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, soft, sweet and silky with licorice, spice, espresso and earthy accents. The polished, red fruit and stone finish seals the deal. 1,100 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Medium-bodied, soft and polished with freshness, silky tannins, sweet plums, ripe cherries, licorice and earth in the supple, polished finish. 91-93 Pts 2,047 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Bright, fresh, soft, forward, medium-bodied, fruity, plum and dark cherry centered wine with chocolate dusted, licorice accents in the finish. 1,883 Views Tasted Aug 28, 2021 |
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2016
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fresh herbs, thyme, licorice and red plums work together in this medium-bodied, easy to like wine. Soft, fresh and juicy, this is quite already quite charming. 4,009 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Medium bodied with polished soft fruits, hints of licorice, thyme, herbs and cherries, the wine leaves you with an earthy finish. 1,923 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, soft, sweet and fresh, the silky, polished, spicy. red fruit oriented wine sticks with you from the nose to the finesse driven finish. 2,526 Views Tasted May 21, 2018Medium-bodied and softly-textured, this wine displays a wealth of ripe, dark, red fruits, plum and thyme with juicy black cherries in the finish. 2,230 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Soft, medium bodied, approachable, silky and offering fresh, red fruits and licorice from start to finish. 88-90 Pts 2,875 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
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2013
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With licorice, black cherry and cocoa, this soft, early-drinking, medium-bodied wine has minerality and an open red berry finish. 88-90 Pts 2,395 Views Tasted Apr 28, 2014 |
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2012
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Oak, licorice, caramel with round and soft black raspberries and chocolate-covered cherries. 90-92 Pts 2,602 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Coffee, stone, ripe red berries, polished textures and soft red cherry are found in this supple wine. 90-91 Pts 2,913 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2012 |
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2010
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
2010 Balestard La Tonnelle is filled with licorice, fresh berries and minerality. 87-89 Pts 5,213 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
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2009
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Dried cherries, espresso beans and earthy scents, medium bodied, finishing with sweet and tart, dark red berries. 2,790 Views Tasted Nov 19, 2014 |
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2005
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully developed, medium-bodied, fresh, bright, earthy, round and soft with sweet, juicy plums, smoke, licorice and earthy nuances. 3,033 Views Tasted Sep 13, 2020 |
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2000
Château Balestard La Tonnelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully mature, this is probably going to fade from here, so if you want to catch the licorice stained, cherries, juicy plums, thyme and round textured, sweet, fruit, filled finish, if you have a bottle, pop a cork sooner than later. 3,356 Views Tasted Dec 13, 2017 |
