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Château Le Chatelet
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2022
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, espresso, chocolate, and a lot of oak creates the character in the nose and palate. Once past the wood, the wine is creamy, polished, and sweet, But it is on the oaky side of the style range. Drink from 2025-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,805 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
2021
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, with a core of espresso, dark cherry and herbs on the nose and palate that will be easy to enjoy on release. Drink from 2023-2034. 86-88 1,340 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
2020
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The best vintage of Le Chatelet I have ever tasted starts off with notes of smoke, licorice, espresso, red and black fruits in the perfume. Medium-bodied, silky and fresh, with a dose of oak on the palate which needs to better integrate before you find all the sweet, red fruits on the palate and in the finish. Drink from 2023-2037. 1,058 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Earthy, tobacco, thyme, black raspberries, flowers, toasty oak and cherries lead the way to the medium-bodied, soft, fruity, easy to like mid-palate and polished finish. This is a nice step up for this normally underperforming wine. 88-90 Pts 1,850 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
2019
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, soft, elegant, sweet, red berry filled, early drinking wine that finishes with a refined, light note of fresh, sweet red fruits. You can enjoy this on release, Drink from 2022-2030. 1,389 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Medium-bodied, round, forward, soft and fruity wine that will provide ample pleasure on release and over the next decade. 86-88 Pts 2,257 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
2018
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With licorice and espresso to accompany the red fruits, the wine is soft, forward, medium-bodied and almost ready to go. 1,391 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021 |
2017
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
A fruity, forward, early drinking, medium-bodied wine with a strong leafy olive component that rides along with the bright red fruits. 1,634 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
2016
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, forward, and all its red fruits, with their olive and herb accents. You can drink this on the young side. 1,958 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019This is a forward, simple, correct, early drinking wine, medium bodied without faults but lacking complexity. 2,347 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
2015
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, light in color and fruit, the wine is forward and focuses on its range of soft, red berry fruits. Drink this on the young side. 2,996 Views Tasted May 21, 2018Medium-bodied, forward and showing much more ripeness and fruit than usual with its licorice and black cherry personality. 2,757 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
2013
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Light in color with a light, bright—almost transparent—level of red fruit. 82-84 Pts 2,195 Views Tasted Apr 28, 2014 |
2012
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, fresh, lighter style of Right Bank wine with a forward, cherry and coffee bean center and a ready to drink personality. 2,114 Views Tasted Nov 6, 2016 |
2010
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Lighter styled St. Emilion with a focus on the freshness on its soft, fresh red fruits on the nose and palate. This is already drinking at peak. 2,321 Views Tasted Sep 13, 2020 |