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Château La Gaffelière
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2023
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black plums, flowers, cherries, and fennel fill the nose. On the palate, the wine is luscious, elegant, polished, fresh, sweet, and lifted, with lingering cherries, and plums on the backend in the salted-chocolatey, finish. Drink from 2028-2050. 94-96 Pts. 1,945 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Rich, lush, deep and concentrated, the wine is fresh rich and vibrant with layers of sweet, ripe, vibrant, plums, cherries, flowers and crushed stones from start to finish. Drink from 2023-2050. 96-98 Pts. 5,569 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Plummy, polished, soft, and fresh, the floral characteristics in the nose make an impression before you experience the multiple layers of sweet, ripe, juicy, dark plums, espresso, and chocolate in the mid-palate and in the round, soft, silky, long finish. Drink from 2023-2050. 93-95 3,303 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2019
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
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. 7,335 Views Tasted Jul 3, 2022Rich, plush, silky-textured wine with layers of ripe, sweet, fresh, juicy, dark red fruits, licorice, earth, smoke and espresso notes. Full-bodied, concentrated and with a round, luscious, fruit-filled finish with ripe, fresh, plums, cherries, thyme, cocoa and crushed rocks in the endnote. The wine is a blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc. 94-96 Pts 8,785 Views Tasted Jun 28, 2020 |
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2018
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Lush, polished and pure, the wine has a roundness to the fruit, flesh, silky tannins and a floral, licorice, espresso, cocoa and red pit fruit, plummy finish. 93-95 Pts 6,531 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
You'll find the stony nature in the wine before moving to the lush, ripe, dark red fruits, licorice and espresso notes. Full bodied and lush, this is tasty now and it is going to be more tasty with six to eight years of bottle age. 3,010 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deep ruby in color, the wine is round, lush, polished, concentrated and fruity, with these great, crushed rock and floral accents. 4,922 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Medium bodied, soft polished and fresh, with an earthy, licorice, espresso, smoke and black cherry profile. The finish says as much about the silky tannins, as it does with its dark cherry finish has a nice, dark chocolate finish. 4,073 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Silky tannins, soft, polished, ripe sweet, red fruits, flowers, smoke, black licorice, espresso and wet earth are found easily. There is richness, character and length, with time in the cellar, this should add more complexity and nuance. 5,096 Views Tasted Mar 12, 2018Softly-textured, with polished, tannins and a spicy core of dark red fruits, flowers, licorice, earth, juicy, fresh plums and minerality. 4,134 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, earth and dark, fresh plums, this wine is silky, limber and sweet with freshness and finesse in the finish. 91-93 pts 3,305 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
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2013
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fresh blackberry, boysenberry, licorice and oak kick off the wine. Improved by the soft palate presence, the finish remains in the mocha and cherry mode. From a blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the wine is aging in 50% new French oak. 88-90 Pts 3,523 Views Tasted Apr 28, 2014 |
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2012
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Blending 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc, the wine reached 13.8% ABV. On the palate, the mineral driven, oaky, blackberry filled wine is well made, but it lacks excitement. 89-91 Pts 4,973 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
From 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, the wine reached 13% ABV. Stone, coffee, black cherry and earthy scents are found in the perfume, while round tannins and a ripe, sweet and long cherry personality are the hallmarks of this wine. 90-93 Pts 2,688 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2012 |
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2010
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
2010 La Gaffeliere From an assemblage of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, with its deep ruby color, licorice, smoke, jammy dark berry and coffee aromas is a treat. Rich, polished, tannic, black and red fruits are found in the finish. 93-95 Pts 3,318 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
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2009
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
2009 La Gaffeliere opens with limestone, dark berries, spice, and smoke aromatics. Silky in texture, this merlot based wine ends with boysenberries and licorice. 92-94 Pts 6,264 Views Tasted Jun 28, 2010 |
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2008
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Juicy plums, spice, minerality, earth and espresso notes are found in this medium bodied Bordeaux wine. Elegant and refined, the wine ends with a blend of soft, polished red and black fruits. 3,663 Views Tasted Jan 25, 2011 |
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2006
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Much better on the earthy, red fruit, licorice and espresso bean nose than on the medium bodied, crisp, bright, crunchy, red fruit palate. 3,379 Views Tasted Aug 26, 2015 |
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2005
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Tight, but with air and extensive swirling, notes of boysenberry, blackberry and blue fruit, along with licorice, spice and minerals begin to show. Fat,concentrated and filled with juicy ripe, fruit, this plush, powerful wine ends with a blast of spicy, chocolate covered black raspberries.This wine needs at least another 5-7 years before everything comes together. 8,534 Views Tasted Aug 22, 2010 |
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2004
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, elegant, open and showing secondary notes of earth, truffle, tobacco, stone, herbs and cherries, this is ready for prime time drinking. 3,236 Views Tasted Nov 30, 2014 |
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2003
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
At close to full maturity, the wine displays a nose with tobacco, truffle, flowers, fennel and black cherry notes. Medium bodied, soft, round and ready to go, the finish leaves you with plums, spice and cherries. The wine was made from a blend of 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc. 3,804 Views Tasted Aug 26, 2015 |
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2001
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Beautiful nose of licorice, cassis, tobacco, mint, smoke spice earth. Medium bodied, fully mature, soft and focused on the red berry side of the style range. There is a touch of herb and olive in the end note, along with some dryness in the red cherries. This is at full peak, or slightly past and should be consumed over the next 3-5 years. 3,615 Views Tasted Sep 25, 2014 |
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2000
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully mature, medium bodied, soft, and fresh, the wine offers a pleasant, black raspberry, earth, smoke and spicy profile. There is no reason to age this much longer. 4,067 Views Tasted Dec 10, 2014 |
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1998
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully mature, the nose, with its truffle, thyme, herb and smoke accents which accompany the fresh, sweet cherries is a bit more interesting than the soft, but not overly interesting or long palate presence. 4,682 Views Tasted Feb 9, 2019 |
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1982
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Already starting its slow decline into senility. I know, who isn't? Much more interesting on the completely tertiary nose, with its forest, floor, truffle, thyme, coffee bean and plummy nose, than on the medium bodied, soft, silky, polished, spicy, earthy, plum filled palate. I bet this was a much better wine 10 years ago. 5,418 Views Tasted Nov 15, 2016 |
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1964
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Much better than the previous bottle, this was rockin'! Luscious fruits, silky, earthy, ripe, soft fruits and a finish that lingers with its blend of plums, rocks, stones, tobacco and herbs. At the perfect level of maturity, if you can find a bottle, grab it! 2,411 Views Tasted Oct 10, 2018Smoky dark cherries, licorice, earth, tobacco and plum characteristics, medium/full bodied, soft, and gently fading, the wine shows the charm of its age, while still providing pleasure. No decanting needed, just pop and pour. This is not a wine for further aging. 3,074 Views Tasted Mar 26, 2017 |
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1961
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
1961 La Gaffeliere is filled with 5 spice, minerality, smoke, crushed stone, ash, dark berry and plum scents. With silky, fleshy textures, complicated by the patina of age, the wine finishes with coffee, spice, olive, black cherry and cocoa. 3,876 Views Tasted Oct 7, 2011 |
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1928
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Complex aromatics made from intense scents of smoke, tobacco, cassis, cedar chest, black cherry, coffee, cigar leaf, spice, earth and truffle. Concentrated with flavor, with sweet patina of age that comes from decades of cellaring, the wine ends with bitter chocolate, sweet, red plums and spice. 2,890 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2012 |
