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Château Petit Gravet Ainé
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2023
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, orange rind, crushed stone, bright red fruits, and spice, with a hint of espresso, cherries, and red plums create the complex character here. This is quite salty, and vibrant, with ripeness, energy, and volume, but, the character remains reserved. This is going to be a gem if you give it time. Produced from 90% Cabernet Franc and 10% Merlot, making this one of the heaviest concentrations of Cabernet Franc in Bordeaux. Drink from 2029-2050. 93-95 Pts. 1,189 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
2022
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Supple, fresh, deep, floral and heavily influenced by its mineral essence, the wine offers an intense, spicy, salty, fruit-packed experience with layers of berries, energy and length. Produced from 90% Cabernet Franc and 10% Merlot, making this one of the heaviest concentrations of Cabernet Franc in Bordeaux. Drink from 2027-2045. 94-95 Pts. 2,454 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
2021
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Savory red fruits, herbs, flowers, spice box, crushed rocks and pine create the nose. On the palate, the wine is soft, fresh, vibrant, and salty. Produced from 90% Cabernet Franc and 10% Merlot, this unique wine will be better with a few years of age. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 2,139 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
2020
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With one of the highest proportions of Cabernet Franc in Bordeaux at 80%,the nose jumps with nuances of dried flowers, spice, savory red fruits, espresso, incense, orange rind, crushed rocks and mint. The wine is fresh, lively and pure on the palate with a massive blast of oceanic influences, giving you a strong salty accent to the layers of plums and cherries. Give it time in the cellar to develop and it will be an even better wine. This is clearly the finest vintage of Petit Gravet Ainé produced yet. Drink from 2025-2050. 2,584 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Savory fruits, spice, crushed rocks and forest leaf come to the surface easily. Silky, fresh, vibrant and juicy with a purity to the fruits, and refinement on the palate, the wine finishes with salty tannins, crushed rocks, savory red fruits and mint. Give it time in the cellar to develop and it will be an even better wine. This is clearly the finest vintage of Petit Gravet Ainé produced yet. 94-96 Pts 4,206 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
2019
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Savory red fruits are the first thing you find on the nose and on the medium-bodied palate, along with a strong sense of minerality, dark chocolate, salty tannins and red plums with black raspberries in the finish. The wine has one of the highest percentages of any Saint Emilion at close to 90% of the blend. Give it a few years in the bottle to soften and fill out. Drink from 2025-2040. 1,459 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Underbrush, green leafy notes, herbs, crushed rocks and red berries to start, the wine is stony, fresh, vibrant and racy with its fresh red fruits, spice and salty tannins. Give it time in the cellar to develop and it will be a much better wine and perhaps the best vintage of Petit Gravet Ainé produced yet. 92-94 Pts 3,868 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
2018
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Espresso, spice, smoke, flowers, plums and cherry aromatics pop from the glass. The palate shows off its silky, fresh, elegant, juicy, sweet, stony core of fruits with little effort. The stony edge gives a fabulous sense of minerality to the wine on the nose, palate and finish. The wine was made from 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot. 2,171 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Spicy, floral, lush, ripe and loaded with strata of rocks, stones, herbs and fruit. The wine has density, ripe tannins and a strong mineral essence that adds to the ripe, spicy red fruits. This is the best vintage of Petit Gravet Ainé ever produced. The wine was made from 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot. 92-94 Pts 3,214 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
2016
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fresh, spicy and flowery, medium/full bodied with tobacco and herbs, which shine over the plums on the nose and in the mouth, there is more ripeness and flesh here than usual. 4,131 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
2015
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Using 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot, this wine is deep in color, mineral driven with a rich, plush quality that you never see in Petit-Gravet. Full-bodied, concentrated and the ability to age. If you're a fan of Cabernet Franc, this is a wine you should make sure you taste. 4,493 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
2014
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Softer and more approachable than usual, this wine is smooth, mineral driven, fresh and long with a core of ripe fruit. The wine was produced from a blend of 60% Cabernet Franc and 40% Merlot. 90-92 Pts 3,655 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
2013
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With stone and cherry character, the wine has an intense sensation of minerality in the black cherry finish. Normally, this wine has a high percentage of Cabernet Franc in the blend, but this vintage is comprised of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. Only 1,100 bottles were produced this year from a production that is usually closer to 8,000 bottles. 88-90 Pts 1,554 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2014 |
2011
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With a massive dose of 80% Cabernet Franc, blended with 20% Merlot, this wine was produced from 50 year-old vines and aged in 100% new oak. This is an interesting wine due to its high level of Cabernet Franc, showing stone, pepper, black raspberry and green leafy aromas with some dryness in the finish. It will need time to come together. 88-90 Pts 2,321 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2012 |
2010
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Firm, structured, tannic, mineral driven, peppery and floral, with fresh red berries, ripe plum and spicy notes. This needs more time to develop and soften. Produced from a blend of 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot, this is one of the highest percentages of Cabernet Franc in all of Bordeaux. 4,289 Views Tasted Nov 5, 2014 |
2009
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Due to large proportion of Cabernet Franc in the blend, this uniquely styled wine starts off with floral, fennel, licorice, and dark plum aromas. Medium/full bodied, with chalky tannins, the wine ends in mineral, leafy bright flavors. 3,187 Views Tasted May 7, 2012 |
2001
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Firm, leafy and floral, with a pronounced, fresh, red fruit character. There is more going on aromatically, than on the firm, stony, red berry, medium bodied palate. I guess you might call this a Burgundy lovers Bordeaux. 1,855 Views Tasted Nov 16, 2016 |