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Château d'Aiguilhe
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2024
Château d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Medium-bodied, round, forward, and fruity, the wine is charming, early-drinking, and most importantly, you can taste and feel the influence of its minerality, with its chalky notes, and touch of salt that accompanies the bright, sweet, vibrant, red pit fruits, along with a hint of cocoa that you find at the end of the finish. The wine is made from 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts 363 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2024
Château d'Aiguilhe Le Blanc d'Aiguilhe (Bordeaux)
Flowers, yellow citrus, cut grass, and tangerine rind nuances are all over the place. On the palate, the wine is fresh, and juicy, with hints of white peach, and tropical fruits in the creamy finish. The wine is produced from close to 100% Sauvignon Blanc, with just a bit of Sauvignon Gris in the blend. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2027-2031. 92 Pts. 92-92 Pts 281 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2024
Château d'Aiguilhe Le Chardonnay d'Aiguilhe (Vin de Pays Pyrénees-Atlantiques)
Honeysuckle, tropical fruits, green apples, and pears create the core of this creamy, floral, fruity, charming wine. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2031. 91-91 Pts 231 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2023
Château d'Aiguilhe Le Chardonnay d'Aiguilhe (Vin de Pays Pyrénees-Atlantiques)
Pears, green apples, flowers, and tropical fruits shine in the nose, and on the fresh, sweet, juicy, crisp, citrus-oriented, fruity, vibrant palate. The wine is produced from 100% Chardonnay. Drink from 2025-2030. 92 Pts. 2,396 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
It is the refreshing mouthfeel, along with its chalky character that sets this apart from other wines from the Cotes. Long, ripe, and intense, with vibrancy, the salty, chalky accents to the red pit fruits stand out in the nose, palate, and in the finsh. The wine is made from 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV. Drink from 2027-2039. 92-94 Pts. 2,782 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
Yellow tropical fruits, white peach, flowers, and orange rind notes pop in the crisp, sweet, and juicy, chalky wine. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2025-2030. 92 Pts. 1,168 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Flowers, black raspberries, plums, and cocoa create the perfume. On the palate, the wine is soft, mineral-driven, bright, and fresh. There is lift, and energy, with a salty edge to the bright, clean, red berries in the mid-palate, that carry through to the finish. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2038. 1,504 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Dark pit fruits, blackberries, flowers, and cocoa create the nose. The wine is medium-bodied, soft, sweet, polished and fresh. On the medium-bodied palate, the fruits are ripe, sweet and long, leaving you with a touch of salty chalk on the back end of the creamy finish. The wine is made from 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. 14.3% ABV. Drink from 2025-2038. 93-95 Pts. 3,535 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2022
Château d'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
White flowers, yellow citrus and vanilla are clearly evident on the nose and palate. The wine has lift, sweetness and freshness in its core of yellow citrus and green apples that carries through from the mid-palate to the fruit-filled finish. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2024-2030 92-92 Pts. 1,813 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2022
Château d'Aiguilhe Seigneurs d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Bright, fresh, plums, cherries and flowers shine with ease in this soft-textured, refined, medium-bodied, vibrant-styled, fresh, red berry filled charmer that is perfect for early drinking pleasure. Drink from 2025-2030. 441 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025 |
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2022
Château d'Aiguilhe Le Blanc d'Aiguilhe (Bordeaux)
Flowers, pears, and green apples are already enjoyable on the palate, and in the nose. The mid-palate and finish are made better with the sensation of crushed stone that accompanies the juicy citrus in the endnote. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2025-2032. 1,695 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025 |
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2021
Château d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Black raspberries, dried roses, and spice hit the perfume. On the palate, the wine is soft, polished, fresh, and lively with a salty edge to the plums and cherries in the chalky finish The wine blends 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2024-2036. 1,828 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Black cherries, sea salt, flowers and herbs create the nose. On the palate, the wine is soft, fresh, polished and fruity, with silky tannins, chalk and freshness in the finish. The wine is made from 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. 13.3% ABV. Drink from 2023-2036. 91-93 2,134 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2021
Château d'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
Lemon, lime, white flowers, ginger, orange, and green apple aromatics pop in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is loaded with sweet, ripe, energetic yellow citrus, pineapples, mango and Indian spice. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2024-2030. 677 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Lemon curd, honeysuckle, spice, green apple and a touch of vanilla in the deep background create the perfume. On the palate, the wine is fresh, crisp and packed with pippin apples, pomelo, chalky, yellow citrus with a crisp finish. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2023-2032. 92-92 1,163 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2021
Château d'Aiguilhe Seigneurs d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Spicy, fresh, medium-bodied, forward, soft-textured, vibrant, cherry and plum filled wine that is going to be delicious on release. Drink from 2024-2030. 742 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024 |
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2020
Château d'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
Green apples, white peach, honeysuckle, and tangerine come to the surface of the nose. The wine is sweet, round, lush and fresh, with creamy textures and yellow citrus with a background note of honey that comes in at the end of the finish. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2023-2030. 817 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023 |
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2020
Château d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Round, lush and polished, there is a wealth of fruit and freshness here that is made even better due to the notes of crushed rocks, stones and oceanic influences. On the palate the wine is silky, lifted and fruity, finishing with ample length and a cool salty touch. Drink from 2023-2038. 6,237 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023 |
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2020
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Quite floral on the nose with earthy red fruits, forest floor and oceanic notes. On the palate the wine is silky, pure, fresh, vibrant and juicy. There is length and complexity with a cool salty touch to the tannins that is there from the mid-palate through to the finish. Blending 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. 93-95 Pts 5,051 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2020
Château D'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
Green apple, lime, flowers, honeysuckle and stone open the wine. Crisp and energetic, the wine shows freshness, sweet, yellow citrus and crisp Granny Smith apples in the juicy, lifted, finish. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. 92 Pts 1,420 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Violets, lilacs, crushed stone, cocoa powder, red pit fruits and licorice in the nose. On the palate, the wine is sweet, silky, fresh and pure. Perhaps this is the most elegant offering yet for this wine. It is refined and polished with purity of fruit in the extended finish. Blending 88% Merlot with 12% Cabernet Franc. 93-95 Pts 8,838 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2019
Château D'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
Bright, fresh, crisp, energetic, citrus filled wine that provides lift, energy along with a beautiful citrus and green apple filled finish with a dollop of honey to sweeten the pot. 92 Pts 2,103 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2019
Château d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Dark red fruits, coffee bean, flowers, licorice and chocolate are found in the nose. Fresh and silky on the palate, with a gorgeous purity to the fruits and silky textures in the cherry packed finish, this is going to take a few years before it starts to deliver its true essence. The wine is made from 88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2023-2035. 4,146 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022 |
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2019
Château d'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
White peach, flowers, pears, spice, lemons and just a hint of roasted almond shine brightly on the nose. The wine is fresh and creamy, finishing with sweet, lemons in the endnote. The grapes come from vines planted in Castillon Cotes de Bordeaux. Drink from 2022-2027. 1,000 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022 |
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2019
Château d'Aiguilhe Seigneurs d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Medium-bodied, lighter styled, fresh, red berry filled, floral charmer that is perfect for early drinking pleasure. 1,867 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022 |
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2018
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Deeply colored, the wine is loaded with licorice, flowers, truffle, blackberry and plum on the nose. On the palate, the wine is rich, supple, round and fleshy, with freshness and density on the palate. There is purity in the fruit and length in the finish which provides you with sensuous red pit fruits, silky tannins, licorice, cherries, cocoa and crushed rock sensations. The harvest took place September 18 to October 5. 93-95 Pts 8,126 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2018
Château D'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
Green apple, yellow citrus and pears come through in a forward, bright, fresh, crisp style that you can drink on the young side. 1,247 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
The nose is ripe with licorice, black cherry and plums. There is an honest sweetness to the fruit. The textures are round, the tannins are soft and the finish is fruity with a touch of licorice on the back end. The wine was made from a blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. The harvest took place September 21 to October 7. The frost devastated 60% of the vineyard. 5,480 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Ripe, lush, sweet, dark red fruits, silky textures and a long, earthy, fruit-filled finish, with a blast of licorice, dark cocoa and black cherries in the finish. This could be the best vintage of d'Aiguilhe produced yet! 6,854 Views Tasted May 12, 2018Deep in color, the wine offers dark, black cherry liqueur, espresso, blackberry, and chocolate nuances. There is flesh, freshness and depth of flavor, with supple, sensual textures and a lush, ripe, dark, red fruit filled finish. The wine was produced from blending 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc. 5,484 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2016
Château D'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
Vanilla, pears, green apple and citrus aromatics come together nicely. Medium bodied, sweet, early drinking charmer, that will be fun to enjoy in the hot summer months. 1,604 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Purity with silky tannins and incredibly sweet, ripe, dark, red fruits to begin, you'll find licorice and just a hint of dark chocolate on the back end. This wine has concentration and energy and gives us insight into the kind of wine that can be realized in the Cotes de Bordeaux. 5,995 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2015
Château D'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
The second vintage for the white wine here gets going with Fresh grapefruit, vanilla and sweet lemon chiffon, produced in a forward style. 1,814 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Fresh, red and black fruits with a spicy, mineral driven, sweet, spicy, plum and cherry finish. 90-91 Pts 3,964 Views Tasted May 1, 2015 |
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2014
Château D'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
Fresh grapefruit, vanilla bean and lemon chiffon, made in a fresh, sweet, early drinking style. This is the debut vintage for this wine that was produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. 87 Pts 1,357 Views Tasted May 1, 2015 |
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2013
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Smoky cherries, licorice and espresso bean with truffle create the aromas. On the palate, the wine shows ripeness and polish for the vintage, ending with a blast of plum and minerality that carries through. From a blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the wine reached 13.5% ABV. The yields were 10 hectoliters per hectare. The wine is aging in 40% new oak. 89-91 Pts 3,902 Views Tasted May 1, 2014 |
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2012
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Forward, soft, medium bodied wine that delivers a sweet, round, black cherry, thyme, espresso and earthy signature. This is ready to go. 5,358 Views Tasted May 15, 2015From a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, the wine will be aged in 50% new, French oak barrels. Ruby in color, plush, forward, and offering sweet black raspberries with fennel, drink this on the young side. 88-90 Pts 5,630 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
With a dark color, the wine delivers a blast of ripe black raspberries, cherry, espresso and licorice. Forward, medium bodied and already delicious, drink this on the young side. 2,719 Views Tasted May 20, 2014From a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, this wine will be aged in 45% new oak. From limestone soil similar to what is found on the St. Emilion plateau, it shows flowers, minerality, spearmint and plum. This fresh, soft, black raspberry-filled, tannic wine will benefit from a few years of age. 90-92 Pts 3,055 Views Tasted Apr 20, 2012 |
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2010
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
With a good deep color, the wine offers truffle, tobacco and sweet black cherries in the nose. Structured, fresh, bright and now tight, the wine is not a lot of fun to taste for the moment. Give it a 3-5 years in the cellar before popping a cork. 7,582 Views Tasted May 7, 2013With a licorice, black cherry, smoke, spice and espresso bean nose, this supple ripe, spicy black raspberry jam filled wine is one of the top wines from the Cotes de Castillon appellation. 91-92 Pts 8,351 Views Tasted Jul 30, 2011d’Aiguilhe – This 50-hectare vineyard produced with a typical blend for the appellation, 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc is aged in 50% new oak. Dark, purple ruby in color, with a perfume of licorice, jammy dark berries and oak, the wine is round in texture and is filled with delicious ripe black and red fruits, chocolate and spicy, fresh berries. 90-92 Pts 7,462 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
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2009
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Licorice, jammy berries, coffee and chocolate scents lead to a plush, round, sexy and already approachable wine. Net yields in 2009 were an amazing 8 hls/ha. 7,359 Views Tasted Jul 30, 20112009 d’Aiguilhe - This 50-hectare vineyard is planted on thin clay on top of limestone. Net yields in 2009 were 8 hls/ha. The wine is aged in 50% new oak. This wine, 80% merlot and 20% cabernet franc, is deeply colored, and shows aromas of spice, oak, dark jammy berries, anise, strawberries, and chocolate. Full bodied and round, this fresh, supple wine finishes with dark cherry, spice, and licorice. 90-92 Pts 7,571 Views Tasted Aug 26, 2010 |
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2008
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
2008 D’Aiguilhe offers a perfume of licorice, oak, minerals, blackberry and coffee scents. Full bodied and concentrated, this ripe and round textured wine was bottled in June. 91 Pts 7,215 Views Tasted Nov 18, 201008 D’Aiguilhe (Cotes de Castillon) is the perfect ringer for a blind tasting of St. Emilions. Coffee, black fruit, and some mineral essences start off this lush wine that has a fresh, ample finish of anise, plums, and black berry fruits. 89-92 Pts 7,295 Views Tasted Aug 31, 2009 |
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2005
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
This voluptuous charmer is filled with licorice, black cherry, chocolate and smoke. Round, sensuous and ready, this is drinking great today. It should continue at this level for at least another decade. 7,287 Views Tasted Mar 25, 2013This sexy little wine is coming around and offering a lot of pleasure with its licorce, chocolate, smoke, caramel and roasted coffee bean perfume. Supple in texture, the wine exudes pleasure in its ripe, dark berry, chocolate and mocha finish. 7,947 Views Tasted Dec 7, 2012From a typical blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, this delicious, affordable, Cotes de Castillon wine is filled with licorice, black cherry, cocoa, cassis and earthy scents. Richly textured and drinking perfectly today, the wine ends with a fresh, ripe, fennel and spicy plum finish. This is one of the great value wines from the 2005 Bordeaux wine vintage. 7,692 Views Tasted Aug 8, 2011 |
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2004
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Smoky, with mushroom, floral and dark berry aromatics. The wine is medium bodied, round and ends with a fennel and black cherry finish. This is fully mature and requires drinking. 2,455 Views Tasted Nov 30, 2014 |
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2003
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
This fully mature wine offers licorice, plum, black cherries, truffle, jam and smoke. From a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, this round, ripe and delicious Right Bank, Bordeaux wine is drinking great today. 6,443 Views Tasted Sep 9, 2011 |
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2001
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Clearly starting its gentle decline as the wine offers more secondary, earthy, tobacco notes than sweet, red berries. Drink up as it is not going to get any better from here. 3,139 Views Tasted Nov 3, 2016 |
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2000
Château D'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Fully mature, with licorice, stone, earth, black raspberry, spice, coffee and ripe plum scents, this round, medium bodied, soft textured wine is drinking at the perfect place today. If you have any remaining, I'd drink them over the next 2-4 years to preserve the fruit. 5,851 Views Tasted Aug 17, 2011 |
