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Château Haut-Simard
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2025
Château Haut-Simard (Saint-Émilion)
Tobacco leaves, mint, flowers, licorice, plums, and black cherries create the aromatic profile. The palate manages to blend its vibrant, lifted, spicy, minty fruits together, leaving you with a juicy, fruit-packed, creamy, finish with a blast of camphor that comes in with the endnotes. Crafted so you can enjoy it with pleasure on release, or age it for 15 of more years. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Franc, and 20% Merlot. Drink from 2028-2045. 92-94 Pts 604 Views Tasted May 7, 2026 |
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2024
Château Haut-Simard (St. Émilion)
Flowers, menthol, raspberries, and cherries fill the perfume. Medium-bodied, vibrant, fresh, soft, sweet and fruity, the berries are clean, and pure. Elegantly crafted, you can enjoy this with ease on release. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Franc, and 20% Merlot. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts 1,003 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2023
Château Haut-Simard (Saint-Émilion)
Showing much better in the bottle, than in the barrel, which is always a great sign, aromatically the wine pops with flowers, mint, oceanic scents, licorice, and an assortment of cherries. Medium-bodied, with a vibrancy, and strong mineral accent, the wine finishes with minty freshness and red pit fruits. The wine blends 60% Merlot with 40% Cabernet Franc. This is quite nice to drink today, and it can age for over a decade as well. This is clearly the best vintage of Haut Simard I've ever tasted! Drink from 2026-2040. 294 Views Tasted Mar 17, 2026 |
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2022
Château Haut-Simard (St. Émilion)
All of the Cabernet Franc, a record-setting 70% defines the wine. With the floral nose, elegant textures, and minty-fresh, mid-palate, and finish, this is the best Haut-Simard ever produced. Drink from 2025-2040. 639 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Blending a record setting 70% Cabernet Franc with 30% Merlot, you find a wine loaded with black fruits, flowers, and wild herbs. On the palate, the wine is fresh, vibrant, bright, and crisp, with a core of ripe, black, and red fruits, and vibrant, chalky tannins on the backend. Give it a year or so in the cellar and it promises to be even better. Drink from 2025-2040. 91-93 Pts. 2,150 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2018
Château Haut-Simard (St. Émilion)
Black raspberry, vanilla, plum and licorice notes are instantly accessible in the nose. From there you'll find round, lush, soft, silky textured, dark red berries. This probably the finest vintage of Haut Simard ever produced. The wine blends 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc. 1,385 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Licorice, vanilla and dark plums make up the nose. From there you'll find a round, soft, juicy, fresh, open wine that will serve up a lot of pleasure in its youth. Made from a blend of 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc, the wine is aging in 20% new, French oak barrels. 90-92 Pts 1,807 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2016
Château Haut-Simard (St. Émilion)
Blending 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, the combination of underbrush and ripe, smoky plums hits the spot. The wine has lushly textured, ripe fruit and ample sweetness in the mouth, giving it more weight and depth than usual. This is quite nice to drink today, and it can age for a few years as well. 4,618 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Licorice, black raspberry and fresh, red and white cherries pop with no effort. Juicy, fresh and lively, the wine is medium bodied with loads of fruit and freshness in a bright finish. Made from a blend of 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc, the wine is aging in 20% new French oak barrels. 3,893 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2014
Château Haut-Simard (St. Émilion)
Earthy, black raspberries and leafy notes in the nose with a sweet, black cherry center in the finish. Produced with a blend of 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc, the wine is aging in 20% new, French oak barrels. 88-90 Pts 2,397 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
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2012
Château Haut-Simard (St. Émilion)
From a typical Right Bank blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Merlot, the wine will be aged in 50% new French oak for 12 months. Spicy black raspberries, coffee bean and earth lead to a soft, medium-bodied wine that ends with sharp cassis and cherry notes. 87-89 Pts 2,702 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château Haut-Simard (St. Émilion)
With 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc, the wine will be aged in 50% new oak. This wine shows herb, black cherry, stone and spice with a round, dark cherry finish. 88-89 Pts 2,262 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2012 |
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2010
Château Haut-Simard (St. Émilion)
2010 Haut Simard from the team at Chateau Ausone, this 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc blend is not to be confused with Simard. Haut Simard comes from a different terroir and is aged in 50% new oak. Licorice, oak, jammy black raspberry and floral aromas work well with the suave texture and ripe, chocolate and blackberry finish. 89-91 Pts 4,195 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
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2009
Château Haut-Simard (St. Émilion)
Fresh, bright and firm in character, the nose shows off a crisp, red berry stone, espresso and leaf character. There is an austerity to the palate presence that was not expected with a 2009. 3,835 Views Tasted Sep 28, 2016 |
