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Château Soutard
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2023
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, flowers, black cherries, and chocolate define the core of this wine. The wine is elegant, creamy, fresh, pure, and precise, The finish combines silky tannins, crushed stones, and fresh, red fruits. Drink from 2026-2047. 93-95 Pts. 1,547 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The color is shiny black, purple. On the palate, the wine is powerful, concentrated, dark, and deep, with multiple layers of chocolate-coated plums, blackberries, licorice and spice. The wine is sensuous, opulent, and rich. The finish allows you to linger with all of its layers of chocolate and black fruits. This could be the finest vintage of Soutard ever produced! 76% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, 8% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% whole-bunch, fermented Malbec makes the blend. Drink from 2026-2047. 94-96 Pts. 2,501 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Red and black plums, spice, smoke, licorice, espresso and flowers produce an engaging perfume. The palate, with its layers of red fruits, soft, refined, creamy textures and cherries tastes and feels great. The wine is a blend of 70% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Malbec. Drink from 2024-2038. 991 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Showing a nice depth of color, the wine is soft, round, polished, rich and fruity, with silky tannins and freshness from start to finish. The creamy finish leaves you with a touch of spice in the endnote. The wine is a blend of 70% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Malbec. Drink from 2024-2040. 92-94 1,730 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, 5 spice, herbs, smoke and licorice blend with the red berries and pit fruits perfectly in the bouquet. On the palate, the wine is concentrated and rich, yet light on its feet, elegant, balanced and fresh. The finish lingers with an array of ripe, red, black and blue fruits, licorice and a salinity on the backend with just a hint of cocoa that seals the deal. This is the finest vintage of Soutard I have ever tasted! Drink from 2025-2045. 1,922 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023The complex set of aromatics opens with 5 spice, smoke, licorice, tobacco leaf, chocolate and blackberry liqueur notes. Full-bodied, lush, opulent and silky, the wine is deep, concentrated and rich, yet light on its feet, elegant, balanced and fresh. The finish lingers with an array of ripe, red, black and blue fruits, licorice and toasty oak. There is a lot going on here, so give it some time to come together, maybe 6 years or more. 93-95 Pts 2,333 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Full-bodied, rich, lush, silky and vibrant, the wine is packed to the gills with layers of earthy, dark red fruits, flowers, freshness and purity. Elegant in style, the wine is medium-bodied, refined and clean, with a beautiful purity of fruit that shines. This is the finest vintage of Soutard I have ever tasted! Drink from 2024, 2050. 2,356 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022 |
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2018
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Showing much better in bottle than in barrel, the wine is medium/full-bodied, soft, silky, elegant and fresh. The fruit is sweet, pure, refined, long and lifted, with good length and vibrancy in the finish. The wine is a blend of 61% Merlot, 31% Cabernet Franc, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon and 1% Malbec. 3,025 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Medium-bodied, fresh, stony and fruity, the wine is round and fleshy with an herb, tobacco leaf and licorice accent on top of the red berries in the finish. 89-91 Pts 2,755 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fennel, cherry and cocoa aromas blend with luscious, red fruits, soft but present tannins and a crisp, bright, red berry finish 2,339 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
A touch of oak on the nose brings you to the licorice and red fruits. The wine is soft, medium bodied, open and finishes with sweet red cherries. 3,896 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019An attractively deep color, there is a saline quality to the tannins with ripe, dark red berries and ample flesh. The wine starts out well, with good texture, volume, and sweet, fruit, but as hard as it tries, it falls a bit short in the finish. 3,477 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Floral notes meld with black raspberries, licorice, espresso and dark chocolate giving the wine its character. The wine has soft tannins and an approachable, forward personality. 3,762 Views Tasted May 21, 2018Flowery with fresh, vibrant, sweet black raspberries, licorice, espresso, soft tannins and an approachable personality. 3,253 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Floral aromas, paired with fresh red berries and licorice on the nose, this elegant medium-bodied wine carries the red fruit theme all the way through to the finish. 88-90 Pts 3,798 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
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2013
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Truffle and black raspberries make an appearance once past the initial oak in the nose. Medium bodied and easy to drink with sweet red cherries and spice in the middle, this wine will be enjoyable in its youth. 88-90 Pts 2,123 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2014 |
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2012
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Coffee bean, jammy cherries, licorice, truffle and blackberry notes open to a dark cherry, stone and licorice filled wine with a sweet, kirsch finish. 87-90 Pts 3,489 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
From 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc, the wine reached 13.5% ABV. Fennel, truffle and black raspberry can be found in this medium-bodied wine with a cherry-filled, round finish. 90-91 Pts 3,452 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2012 |
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2010
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
2010 Soutard Using 65% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, this medium bodied, licorice, earth and black raspberry tinged wine offers soft textures and a black cherry finish. 87-89 Pts 4,741 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
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2009
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Coffee, licorice, black raspberry and strawberry notes lead to a medium bodied, fresh,soft textured red and dark berry filled, St. Emilion wine. 5,413 Views Tasted Feb 10, 2012 |
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2008
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Tannic, oaky, bright red fruits, espresso, licorice and a lot of freshness on the nose and palate. The wine should age well, but perhaps without a lot of charm. 3,226 Views Tasted Dec 28, 2017 |
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2006
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fresh, bright, crisp, firm, classic styled wine with oak, juicy plums, licorice and tobacco leaf notes on the nose and palate. 2,142 Views Tasted Sep 17, 2020 |
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2005
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, ripe, forward, already developed wine with a licorice, earth and cherry personality. Soft, ready to drink, but without complexity or distinction. 6,150 Views Tasted Nov 12, 2016 |
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2000
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Firm, strict, hard style of wine that is better on the floral, cherry, thyme and earthy, smoky nose than on the still, tannic, , crisp, palate. It's interesting that although they want to produce a modern, styled wine, this is really more in the old school, classic vein. 4,029 Views Tasted Jan 21, 2017 |
