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Château La Rousselle
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2025
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Raspberries, plums, flowers, licorice, tobacco, and a hint of espresso form the character here. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, supple, round, chocolatey, and fruity, with a polished mid-palate, and finish. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. The wine blends 70% Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2028-2040. 90-92 Pts 692 Views Tasted May 7, 2026 |
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2023
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
With an herb and tobacco edge to its red fruit and floral profile. Medium-bodied, fresh, and fruity with a chalky, minty edge to the fruits in the finish. Drink from 2027-2035. 407 Views Tasted Mar 17, 2026Flowers, fruit, and freshness, with a touch of salt on the backend, to make the round, polished, sweet, ripe, black cherries, and juicy plums even better. Drink from 2026-2035. 90-92 Pts. 1,279 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Chocolate, licorice, espresso, and black cherry aromas fill the nose. The palate is loaded with creamy, supple, sweet, and lively, red pit fruits, with a silky edge on the mid-palate, that carries through to the finish. The wine blends 60% Merlot with 40% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2040. 714 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Licorice, flowers and spice with black raspberries and plums fill up the nose and palate here. The wine is supple, medium-bodied, fresh and sweet, with accents of chocolate, licorice, and espresso. The wine blends 60% Merlot with 40% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2025-2035. 90-92 Pts. 1,809 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Flowers and spice with minty herbs and red fruits on the palate. The wine is bright, crisp and a bit reserved as well in the finish. Drink from 2023-2030. 87-89 1,350 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Flowers, herbs, licorice, coffee bean, smoke, earth, flowers and juicy, lush black plums. Opulent, vibrant, rich and concentrated, this is already a pleasure to taste and feel. Drink from 2023-2040. 917 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Dark garnet in color, the wine is loaded with licorice, coffee bean, smoke, anise, earth, flowers and black plums. Richly textured and fleshy, the wine is silky, polished, sweet and long, with an opulent finish. This should be just great on release and even better with a few years of age. 90-92 Pts 1,622 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Dark in hue, with licorice, espresso and black cherries on the nose, the wine is full-bodied, round, forward and very fruity. The endnote, with all those layers of opulent dark berries keeps on going. 89-91 2,800 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Espresso, smoke, cherries, licorice, chocolate and layers of ripe pit fruits are all over the place here, on the showy nose, and on the richly textured, lush, chocolate covered cherry filled palate. It is ready to drink on release and it sells for a song, making it that much better. 913 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021With licorice, smoke, jam and black fruits, the wine is forward, lush, fat and rich. The wine offers early drinking charm, so you can pop on cork on release letting you enjoy all this ripe fruit without delay. 89-91 Pts 1,530 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Fennel, spice, black licorice and plums are delivered with soft, round textures. The wine is medium bodied, forward, open and due to its early drinking charm, you can pop on cork on release. 1,563 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Soft, sweet and fresh, with and earthy, juicy, silky, ripe, sweet dark red fruits in a forward supple style, with a nice fresh polished sweet fruity end note and a lingering, herbal note in the finish. 2,149 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Licorice, dark chocolate and spicy, dark cherry flavors, medium/full bodied, sweet and forward. 1,976 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Soft, silky, ripe, sweet dark red fruits in a forward supple style, with a nice fresh polished sweet fruity end note. 1,821 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Smooth red fruits, red licorice and a forward, fruity sweet finish. 86-89 Pts 1,861 Views Tasted May 1, 2015 |
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2012
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Blending 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc, the wine offers licorice, black cherry and earthy notes in the nose. Soft in texture, but short in the finish. 85-87 Pts 2,049 Views Tasted Apr 28, 2013 |
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2011
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Medium bodied, almost, but not quite light, fruity, soft, dark cherry filled wine with earthy, floral accents. This is not a wine to hold for future drinking. 1,931 Views Tasted Jan 5, 2018 |
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2010
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Round, ripe, forward and lushly textured, this has more than ample, fresh, sweet, juicy black plums, licorice and cocoa, coupled with an open personality to make this already fun in your glass. 1,706 Views Tasted Dec 1, 2015 |
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2009
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
From a blend of 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc, this deeply colored wine offers licorice, coffee bean, black cherry liqueur and mineral scents. Rich in texture, concentrated and with round tannins, the wine ends with a long, sweet, intense, wave of blackberry, jam, fennel and espresso bean. Another great value wine from the Stephane Derenoncourt team. 3,385 Views Tasted Mar 12, 2012 |
