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Château Rouget
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2023
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Flowers, spice, black raspberries, cherries, and herbs create the nose. The wine is supple, creamy, fresh, and vibrant on the medium-bodied, palate. The energetic finish leaves you with loads of sweet, ripe, red fruits with a sprig of mint on the backend. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 2,187 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
2022
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, with notes of espresso, oceanic influences, flowers, spice, and cherries in the aromas. Fresh, and lifted, with layers of refined, elegant, black and red pit fruits, silky tannins, and a touch of chalk in the refined finish. You can enjoy this with just a year, or two of aging, Drink from 2026-2042. 477 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Medium-bodied, with notes of espresso, plums, and cocoa before you find the luscious layers of black and red pit fruits, silky tannins, and chalky finish with its white peppery edge on the back end. Drink from 2025-2042. 92-94 Pts. 3,640 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
2021
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Flowers, chocolate, truffles, and cherries come together in the bouquet. Medium-bodied, vibrant, supple and fresh, there is a lot of lift with energy in th, juicy, red and black plummy finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2024-2038. 1,339 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Flowers, licorice, thyme, cinnamon and cherries on the nose and mid-palate. The wine is soft, fresh, round, sweet and fruity, with a bright, supple-textured, juicy, red and black plummy finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2023-2038. 91-93 2,222 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
2020
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Soft, lush, ripe, sweet, black, and red plums infused with chocolate, truffles and licorice on the backend in the nose, and on the palate create the core of this wine. The finish offers freshness with waves of plush, black cherries, and a touch of spicy cocoa. Give it a year or two in the cellar, and it will really start to show its stuff. Drink from 2024-2045. 3,134 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Showing a depth of color, the lusciously textured, rich, silky, fresh wine is packed with ripe, black cherries, espresso, dark chocolate with touches of peppery spice and cigar wrapper in the endnote. With 3-5 years in the cellar, this is going to be just great. 92-94 Pts 3,991 Views Tasted Jun 3, 2021 |
2019
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Soft, silky, fresh and elegant, the richly-textured, medium-bodied layers of cocoa-covered black cherries, licorice, espresso, flowers and wet earth are already a treat to experience. Lush, supple and creamy on the palate, you can enjoy this early, or age it for more complexity. Drink from 2023-2039. 3,721 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Dark in color, the wine pops with flowers, earth, black forest cake and licorice notes on the nose. Lush, supple and rich, the wine ends with silky plums, black cherries and chocolate. This is a top vintage for Rouget. 92-94 Pts 4,817 Views Tasted Jun 28, 2020 |
2018
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Showing much better in bottle than in barrel, the wine is full-bodied, rich, round and supple. Layers of silky, sweet, black and deep red fruits meld perfectly with spice, cocoa, licorice, espresso bean and wet earth. The fruit filled finish combines length, lift and finesse. Give this 3-5 years before popping a cork. 4,846 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Black cherry and plums galore with espresso, licorice and spice box aromas that fuse well with the medium-bodied, soft, ripe berry palate. Give this 3-5 years for the oak to integrate and for the wine to gain in complexity. 90-92 Pts 6,221 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
2017
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, forward and floral, with the right amount of licorice, plums, dark cherries and even darker cocoa, the wine is soft round and needs only a few years in the cellar. 3,785 Views Tasted May 15, 2020Juicy bright cherries, plum and thyme create the main theme here in this medium-bodied wine. You'll find this is soft, round and polished with fruits that speak to you from start to finish. 2,776 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
2016
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Lush, silky, rich and concentrated, the wine is polished, fresh, and juicy with a silky textured blast of licorice, cocoa and red fruit filled finish. This super wine is a real value for Pomerol. 4,259 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Silky, soft, polished and fresh, the ripe fruit sings here. The added nuances of flowers, anise and truffle along with dark cocoa add to the experience. This super wine is a real value for Pomerol. 3,701 Views Tasted Feb 9, 2019Floral and black raspberry notes are the first things you notice here. This lush, silky, medium-bodied wine is satisfying with fruit-infused cocoa in a round finish. 4,085 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
2015
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Rich and concentrated, with silky tannins, freshness and layers of sweet, ripe black cherries with the right amount of licorice. Silky and fruity, the wine feels great on your palate. This is the best vintage of Rouget produced yet! 4,134 Views Tasted May 21, 2018I love writing about wines that start out as 91 Pts in barrel, and end up with 93 Pts in bottle. That's how it should work in a good vintage. Here, you find a rich, deep, concentrated wine, with silky tannins, elegance, balance, freshness and sweet, ripe black cherries infused with licorice. The lusciously textured finish is the frosting on the cake. The wine was made with 45% whole cluster fruit, which definitively had a positive impact. 3,890 Views Tasted Mar 12, 2018Medium-bodied, silky and soft, with ripe, fresh, juicy plums, earth and floral notes. This is quite nice and a good value for a wine from Pomerol. 3,962 Views Tasted Jul 12, 2017Medium-bodied and forward with round, polished, sweet and spicy, red fruits and licorice that feel great and taste even better, this wine is fresh and smooth and wraps with polished, sweet plums and a dash of spice. 91 - 93 Pts 3,579 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2016 |
2014
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
This wine offers soft, round, textures, a forward character and bright, red berries with plums in the cocoa and herb finish. 88-90 Pts 3,272 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2015 |
2013
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
With an oak, earth and black raspberry character, the wine shows dusty tannins in the black raspberry and dark chocolate finish. 87-89 Pts 4,214 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2014 |
2012
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Licorice, black cherry liqueur, polished and supple tannins, round textures and a plush, spicy and minty liqueur finish are found in this wine. 90-92 Pts 5,451 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
2011
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Earth, bitter chocolate and black cherry with round, soft tannins, lush textures and a ripe, dark plum finish are found in this wine. 90-92 Pts 3,755 Views Tasted Apr 21, 2012 |
2010
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
As good, or even slightly better than the 2009, the wine is lush, plush and filled with sweet, juicy, ripe, black plums, cherries, truffle, licorice and dark chocolate. Rouget is making one of the best values in Pomerol today, which says a lot for wines from this increasingly expensive appellation. 6,038 Views Tasted Nov 1, 2014 |
2009
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Round, supple textures, fresh dark cherry, earth, fennel and cocoa scents and a fresh, sweet, plummy, rich, plush finish. This is another example of how great 2009 is for the entire appellation of Pomerol at all price points. 6,532 Views Tasted Jun 27, 2012 |
2008
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Black raspberry, coffee, dark cherry and earthy notes make up the perfume. Medium bodied, soft and round in texture, with a sweet, red and black plum filled finish. This is a nice, ready to drink Pomerol that is available for under $30. 3,387 Views Tasted Jan 9, 2012 |
2006
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Floral, focused and fresh, the wine is medium bodied, finesse in style, with a sweet, black raspberry, red plum and licorice finish. Give this a few more years of age for the structured tannins to better integrate and soften. 2,462 Views Tasted Oct 31, 2016 |
2005
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Plums, flowers and black cherries pair well with this medium bodied Pomerol. Soft in texture with some roundness, this earthy, black cherry and licorice flavored wine is almost ready to drink. 5,586 Views Tasted Nov 6, 2011 |
2001
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Nice wine here, developed and open in the nose, with its black cherry, cocoa, wet earth and licorice character, and on the palate, with its tannins full integrated, leaving you with juicy, fresh, earthy, spicy cherries in the finish. 2,735 Views Tasted Oct 26, 2016 |
2000
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Close to fully mature, with lots of soft, silky plums, cherries and chocolate with truffle accents. 3,253 Views Tasted May 9, 2014 |
1998
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, fully developed, refined, soft, earthy, truffle laden wine with sweet plums, cherries, spice tobacco and earthy notes. This is probably a bit past its prime. So if you are sitting on any, drink up. 2,830 Views Tasted Sep 10, 2020 |
1943
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Dried cherries, roses and herbs with a hint of cocoa formed the cure of this wine. Medium-bodied, elegant, soft and refined, the light finish still offered cherries on the backend. The only 43 I am likely to taste again was not only a taste of history, having been produced during the middle of WW2, it was a super tasting experience. Drink from 2023-2025. 1,986 Views Tasted Sep 15, 2023 |
1937
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Sour, tart, acidic and filled with VA, the best part was the dried fruit component, and that was obviously not enough to make this wine worth drinking. 2,958 Views Tasted Mar 12, 2010 |