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Château Rochebelle
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2022
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, black raspberries, crushed stones, licorice and espresso create the nose. On the palate, the wine is silky, fresh, and bright, with sweetness to the raspberries, and cherries in the mid-palate. You also enjoy a nice salty endnote in the long, chalky, energetic finish along with a touch of white pepper on the backend. The wine is a blend of 85% Merlot with 15% Cabernet Franc. 15.5% ABV. 3.5 pH. Harvesting took place September 15 - September 20. Yields were 41 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2026-2042. 92-94 Pts. 2,016 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, red plums, licorice, and cherries pop in the nose and on the soft, elegant, medium-bodied palate. The finish adds with its sweetness, plums and hint of spice with salt at the end. Drink from 2024-2036. 281 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Medium-bodied, on the red fruit side with additional layers of dark red berries, you also find a lot of minerality characteristics here with its salinity that shows up on the palate and in the finish. Give it a year or two in the cellar and it could score even higher after finishing its aging. Drink from 2024-2038. 90-92 1,565 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, pine trees, spice and black cherries pop in the nose. On the palate, the wine is opulent, polished with a core of ripe, sweet, fresh, black plums, blueberry and mint that hold your attention from start to finish. As I wrote when tasted this from the barrel, this is clearly a new level of quality at Rochebelle. Much of that credit deservedly goes to their new consultant, Thomas Duclos. Drink from 2024-2040. 1,167 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023 |
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2019
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Round, medium-bodied, soft and forward, with an early drinking, soft, crowd-pleasing fruity character that will be fun to taste on release. 88-90 Pts 2,131 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Medium-bodied, soft, earthy, plummy and fresh, the wine has developed quite nicely during its time in the barrel. I like the touch of spice and sweetness with all the soft, ripe, fruits in the finish. You can drink this on release, or with just a bit of aging. 1,073 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Medium-bodied, earthy with a strong espresso and licorice nose, the red fruits come through in the round finish. You can drink this on release. 87-89 Pts 1,633 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2016
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Leafy forest notes and red fruits lead to a medium bodied, forward, soft, easy to understand, crowd-pleaser of a wine. 1,717 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Forward, soft and already easy to drink, the red berry dominated wine shows some secondary nuances already with its spice, thyme and leafy green notes. This should be enjoyed early, to allow for all the fruits to show well. 2,467 Views Tasted May 21, 2018 |
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2014
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Forward, medium bodied, soft textured, cherry filled charmer, with sweet, fresh, earthy plums and a hint of cocoa in the light finish. 946 Views Tasted Feb 9, 2019 |
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2013
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Light in color with crisp red fruits and a bright, tangy finish. 83-85 Pts 1,251 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2014 |
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2010
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Pleasant, easy, early drinking wine with a licorice, black cherry and earthy personality. 2,420 Views Tasted Aug 16, 2015 |
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2009
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Medium bodied, soft in texture, this forward St. Emilion delivers licorice, black raspberry, cherry, earth and a hint of vanilla bean in the nose. Easy to drink, this should be enjoyed in its first 5-8 years. 2,029 Views Tasted Aug 8, 2013 |
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2005
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Medium bodied, lacking the concentration found in many of the wines from this vintage, hints of licorice, red with black fruit and earth with coffee bean, this is already open. It's not a wine that's going to make old bones. I'd drink over the next 5 years or so. 2,228 Views Tasted Sep 18, 2012 |
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2000
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion)
Fully mature, medium bodied, correct, but unexciting, the nose is better than the palate here, where you find a bright, earthy wine with rustic tannins and a licorice infused, mushroom and plum finish. 1,799 Views Tasted Nov 13, 2017 |
