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Château de Ferrand
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2023
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
It is easy to find the chocolate-topped, crisp black cherries, flowers, licorice, espresso, and spice in the nose. On the palate, the wine is forward, supple, and vibrant. There is lift, and energy in the mouth, with touches of salty citrus, sweet, plums, cherries, and chocolate from the medium-bodied, mid-palate, through to the energetic, bright, red berry finish. The wine blends 65% Merlot, with 35% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,337 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Anise, flowers, cherries, chocolate, and espresso notes pop in the nose with ease. Silky, soft, lush, and refined, this is a gorgeous example of elegance in the glass. With such a superb terroir, and a new team in pace, this is an estate to watch as the wines are only going to get better from here! Bravo!!! Drink from 2026-2045. 266 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Licorice, plums, black cherries, chocolate, and espresso open the wine with ease. Silky, soft, lush, and polished on the palate, the finish delivers ample layers of sweet, ripe, fruits, supple-textured red fruits with chocolately, espresso in the endnotes. The wine blends 66% Merlot with 34% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2042. 92-94 Pts. 1,906 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Espresso, cocoa, flowers and red fruits are easy to spot in the wines aromatic profile. The palate is soft, fresh and energetic with its layers of sweet, ripe, pure, raspberries, red plums and hints of strawberries, with just a squeeze of orange rind at the backend of the finish. Drink from 2024-2036. 477 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Espresso, licorice, cocoa and red plums form the aromas. Bright, crisp, fresh, red berries with a touch of spice and underbrush are found in the energetic, bright, fresh, medium-bodied palate. Drink from 2023-2035. 89-91 1,387 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Easily offering up its floral bouquet in the nose, the wine is soft, silky and fresh with a vibrant, medium-bodied core of soft, polished, fresh, red fruits, spice, chocolate, coffee bean and wet earth. Elegant and refined, with endnotes of licorice, espresso and plums, this is the finest vintage I have ever tasted from de Ferrand. Drink from 2024-2038. 3,007 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023The wine opens with licorice, flowers, espresso, wet earth, smoke and spicy plum aromas. Supple-textured, elegant, fresh, refined and lifted on the palate and in the mineral driven, spicy finish, this is a big step up here in richness, depth and complexity. In fact, this is the finest vintage I have ever tasted from de Ferrand. 91-93 Pts 1,841 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Showing much better in the bottle than it did from the barrel, the nose, with its display flowers, mint, espresso, coco and red fruits gets you ready for all the silky-textured, sweet, soft, polished, refined fruits with a touch of chocolate on the palate and in the finish. You can enjoy this on release or age it a few years before opening a bottle. de Ferrand has been kicking up the quality here over the past few years, which is nice to see. Drink from 2022-2035. 1,105 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022My second time with this wine, as either I, or the initial sample was off that day. Right off the bat, aromatically, this seems like a better wine. Now, I find flowers, espresso, smoke, bitter chocolate, plums and oceanic influences Medium-bodied, with elegant textures and good freshness to the ripe fruits and a strong sensation of minerality, the wine is forward and should be easy to drink with just a few years of aging. 89-91 Pts 2,997 Views Tasted Jul 20, 2020Medium-bodied, sweet and tart red fruits with an herbed, olive note in the bright finish. 87-89 Pts 2,023 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Elegant soft, fresh and sweet, medium-bodied, silky, red berry focused charmer that is showing much better in bottle than it showed in barrel. You can enjoy this on the young side. 1,643 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Floral in nature, the red fruits are fresh, spicy, earthy and bright. The wine is medium bodied with lift and vibrant red plums in the finish. 89-91 Pts 2,410 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, soft red fruits and thyme are there from start to finish. This will be easy to drink on release. 3,244 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Kicking off with a touch of oak, the wine moves to its medium bodied, elegant, polished, spicy, red berry side with ease. The finish is bright, sweet, tart and spicy. 2,578 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019Mineral driven with black raspberries, medium body and bright fruits in the finish, you can drink this on the young side 3,256 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Forward, medium bodied, bright, almost tangy -- red fruits. For complexity you find thyme, earth and coffee bean nuances. You should drink this in its youth. 3,136 Views Tasted May 21, 2018Medium-bodied with crisp, bright, fresh, spicy -- almost tangy -- red fruits with coffee bean and thyme accents. 2,524 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Cigar box, smoke and dark red fruits with a sweet, slightly oaky, red fruit finish. 86-88 Pts 3,187 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
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2013
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Light, sharp, bright red fruits and dusty tannins are coupled with the fresh, crisp, red fruit finish. 83-85 Pts 2,607 Views Tasted Apr 28, 2014 |
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2012
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Simple, dry, short, crowd-pleasing wine. 85-87 Pts 3,817 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2010
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, on the fresh, dark, red fruit side of the style range, this early drinking wine focuses you on its fresh, cherry, spice, earth and crisp, plum personality. 3,324 Views Tasted Dec 1, 2015 |
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2009
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Forward, easy drinking, lighter in style, with a fresh, cherry, plum, licorice, espresso and spicy profile. 4,190 Views Tasted Nov 7, 2016 |
