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Château Le Prieuré
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2023
Château Le Prieuré (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Quite floral in nature, you also find black raspberries, marine influences, orange, and flowers in the perfume. The wine is medium-bodied, elegant, energetic, and silky-textured on the palate, with freshness, ripe fruits, and a complicating touch of salt in the finish. The wine is a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc.14.5% ABV, 3.5 pH. Drink from 2027-2045. 92-94 Pts. 980 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
2022
Château Le Prieuré (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Dark in color, the wine shows its nose of white flowers, crushed stone, mint, mushroom, plums, and licorice with little effort. Fresh, silky, and concentrated, the wine is packed with crushed limestone, sweet, vibrant, red pit fruits, and black cherries from start to finish. The has concentration, and vibrancy, with no sense of of heat in the finish. The wine is a blend of 92% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc.15% ABV, 3.75 pH. Drink from 2026-2045. 93-95 Pts. 2,203 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
2021
Château Le Prieuré (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, red fruits, crushed rocks, licorice and cherries are found with ease on the nose and round, soft-edged, fresh, bright, medium-bodied, red berry packed palate. The wine finishes with salty tannins, red fruits, licorice and coffee bean. This is a bit better on the nose than on the palate, which could use more depth. Drink from 2023-2038. 89-91 1,411 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
2021
Château Le Prieuré (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Crushed rocks, flowers, espresso, and licorice define the perfume. The medium-bodied palate is defined by its freshness, sweetness and vibrancy in its red fruits which are made better by the wines oceanic influences and refreshing touch of mint that is on display on the backend. Drink from 2024-2038. 483 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024 |
2020
Château Le Prieuré (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The nose with its blend of crushed rocks and flowers wakes up your nose. On the palate, the wine is even better with its flashy display of minerality, fresh, ripe, cherries, silky tannins and long, expansive finish, which showcases the purity in the fruit. Drink from 2025-2050. 2,006 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Floral in nature, with a strong sense of minerality, the wine is fresh, elegant, silky and vibrant, with sweet, ripe, juicy, plums, cherries and spice on the palate and in the long, salty, vivacious finish. I really like the length and purity along with all the crushed rocks and stones you find here. 93-95 Pts 2,717 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
2019
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Dark garnet in color, the wine offers flowers, spice, licorice, stones and plum in the nose, Soft, silky and seductive, with a medium-bodied palate, the finish carries on with freshness and purity in the fruits as well as a saline quality in the finish. 91-93 Pts 2,400 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
2019
Château Le Prieuré (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Showing better in the bottle than it did in the barrel, the wine is floral in nature. On the palate, the wine quickly offers its core of sweet, red plums, cherries, chalk and crushed stone. Elegant, fresh, long, clean and pure, the finish resonates with a gorgeous sweetness to the red fruits and minerality. Drink from 2024-2042. 1,492 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022 |
2018
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Silky, refined and soft in texture, the wine focuses on its unadulterated fruit and elegant, medium-bodied character. The addition of spring flowers, crushed rock, licorice and smoke adds to the experience. 92-94 Pts 2,637 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
2018
Château Le Prieuré (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Floral, stony, fruity, silky and fresh, with good lift, energy, sweetness and elegance. Give it 4-5 years in the cellar and enjoy it over the following 15 or more years with ease. 2,098 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021 |
2017
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Lushly textured, deep red fruits, licorice, cocoa, flowers and stone create the maquillage. The tannins are soft, polished and round, the garden-fresh fruit is quick to exhibit a sweetness. And in the finish, there is an interesting touch of salt in the tannins that compliments the ripe, red berries. 1,928 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
2016
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Silky, vibrant, fresh and showing a beautiful assemblage of flowers, cherries, rocks and licorice, the wine is sweet, pure and lively. For the time being, this is still a hidden gem, I suspect that will change with time. 4,029 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Better than 2015, the sensuous textures and all the same fabulous attributes -- but better. Darker, riper, sweeter, fresher and juicier with more refined stone, a sort of crushed gemstone. This wine shows well this year! 5,722 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
2015
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Lush, sexy and supple, this offers sensuality, fresh, ripe, vibrant fruits and a finish loaded with black cherry, dark plums, licorice and mocha. This will only get better with age. 2,395 Views Tasted Mar 12, 2018Another wine that is better in bottle than in barrel. The wine is lush, round, and sensuous in texture. The fruits are ripe, sweet and fresh, with a nice sense of purity in the dark plums, cherries, black licorice and dark cocoa that are present on the nose and palate. This should age quite nicely. 2,263 Views Tasted Nov 22, 2017Easily the best vintage of Le Prieure ever produced, this wine shows a silky charm, freshness in its plum and black cherry core and soft tannins in the finish. 1,552 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
2014
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied with a touch of oak among the fresh plum notes, this wine is soft, forward and easy to drink. The new partnership with the owners of Chateau Latour certainly made a difference as this is one of the best vintages from this estate in years. 89-91 Pts 1,819 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
2013
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, red plum and oak are found in this easy-drinking, medium-bodied wine. 85-87 Pts 3,031 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2014 |
2012
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, ripe, sweet, fresh and packed with juicy fruits, stone and licorice, this soft textured wine will drink well young. 2,407 Views Tasted May 15, 2015Medium-bodied with black and red fruit and a soft, dry finish. 87-89 Pts 1,992 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
2011
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Earth, underbrush, espresso bean and cherry tones open to a short, medium bodied, red berry filled wine for youthful drinking. 2,167 Views Tasted Nov 17, 2013 |
2010
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Le Prieure Using 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, this licorice and jammy blackberry wine is soft, and uncomplicated. 86-89 Pts 3,545 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
2009
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Sweet ripe, black cherries, licorice and minerality open up the wine. Soft textures and an open personality make this a fun Bordeaux wine to enjoy in its youth. 3,962 Views Tasted Mar 12, 20122009 Le Prieure is filled with minerals, anise, spicy dark berries, and smoke. Soft, round, fleshy, and flashy, this opulent wine should deliver pleasure early. 89-91 Pts 1,593 Views Tasted Jun 29, 2010 |
2008
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deep in color, with licorice, blackberry, herbs and coffee notes, round tannins, medium body and a black cherry, vanilla, herb tinged finish. 2,704 Views Tasted Jul 14, 2012 |
2005
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully mature, medium bodied, with more secondary notes than fruit, this is starting to fade and requires consumption. 3,471 Views Tasted Nov 28, 2014 |
2001
Château Le Prieure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, fully mature and on the fresh, bright, red berry side of the style range, with a red plum, raspberry, leaf and earthy red cherry character. I liked the earthy, spicy accents. But the wine is a bit too bright and the fruit is not going to hold from here. 2,116 Views Tasted Nov 15, 2016 |