Château Saint-Pierre 2017

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2017 Saint-Pierre offers up warm cassis, redcurrant jelly, baked black berries and Black Forest cake with earth, herbs and meaty hints. Medium-bodied, it has a great core of muscular fruit with a firm and grainy frame and is solidly built, finishing long and layered. The blend is 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 7% Cabernet Franc, and it was aged in French oak for 14 months, 50% new. About 50% of the total production went into this grand vin, with 80,500 bottles produced.

James Suckling

Attractive, ripe red and dark berries here with spicy oak. Nicely played. The palate has deep, fleshy blueberries and rich plums and a wealth of supple, pliable tannin. Drink or hold.

Jean-Marc Quarin

Wine Spectator

VertdeVin

The nose is fruity, elegant, gourmand and offers a beautiful finesse of the grain, power and a fine linear side. It reveals notes of blackberry, violet and small notes of small wild berries associated with fine hints of grey pepper, raspberry, cardamom, nutmeg and vanilla. The mouth is fruity, well-balanced and offers a beautiful acidulous frame, a good definition, suavity and a fine grain. On the mouth this wine expresses notes of fleshy/juicy red berries, blackberry and small notes of violet associated with fine touches of cardamom, tobacco, lily and discreet hints of racy minerality. Tannins are well-built. A persistence on tonka bean and vanilla pod.