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Château La Gaffelière Naudes
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1961
Château La Gaffelière Naudes (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
This stunner offers everything you could hope for in an aged Bordeaux. Cigar box, truffle, spice, licorice, and plums are all over the place, in the nose, and on the palate. There is ample concentration and a creamy, plummy, earthy finish that steals the show. Drink from 2026-2031. 206 Views Tasted Jan 10, 2026This bottle rocked with its roasted plums, wet earth, herbs, dried flowers, tomato, and cigar box perfume. Silky, refined, and with alternating notes of sweet and tart, spicy, earthy, truffle-topped red berries and olives on the palate, this remains a nice treat. Drink from 2023-2030. 4,438 Views Tasted Sep 1, 2023Still going strong the wine kicks off with coffee grounds, roasted plums, herbs, dried flowers, cigar wrapper and a hint of tomato. Medium-bodied, sweet and tart on the palate and in the finish, which ends with a savory edge. 5,351 Views Tasted Apr 8, 2022Leafy with added complexities of spice box, cigar wrapper, cedar, leather and wet earth that adds to the red pit fruits. There is freshness, soft tannins and more, delicious, ripe, red fruits along with herbs and earthy notes in the finish. This is one of the better values from 1961 in the Right Bank, if you can find a bottle. 3,877 Views Tasted May 31, 2018Explosive nose of flowers, black raspberry, thyme, sweet cherry, tobacco and fresh herbs. Silky, soft and smooth, with a sweet, fresh, sensuous red berry finish. 3,224 Views Tasted Dec 9, 2014 |
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1955
Château La Gaffelière Naudes (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
A stellar example of fully mature, Merlot-based Bordeaux at its peak. Silky and soft in texture, the medium/full-bodied wine offers up tobacco leaf, cigar box, thyme, burning embers and mushrooms alongside the sweet, ripe, red cherries. With freshness and some sweetness remaining on the palate, this is well-worth seeking out in the auction market, as not everyone knows how good these wines are. 2,864 Views Tasted Nov 22, 2018 |
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1952
Château La Gaffelière Naudes (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
More on the secondary side of the style range with its tobacco, campfire ember, burnt leaf, wet earth and last remaining vestiges of red fruits in the nose. The palate was light, cleaner, soft, spicy and bright. This is not a wine to age. But it’s a cool gem to remember history with. Drink from 2025-2027. 1,357 Views Tasted Jul 22, 2025 |
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1950
Château La Gaffelière Naudes (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
It is hard to believe this is 70 years old. Just fabulous from start to finish. The is soft, lush and silky with that special patina that comes from age. The perfume, with its truffle, wet earth, forest floor, cigar box and red fruit hits all the right notes. On the palate, this is even better. I might not see this beauty again, but the memory still lingers. 1,746 Views Tasted Sep 17, 2020 |
