2023 CHÂTEAU SAINT PIERRE 4ème Cru Classé Saint Julien

Colour	Red	Origin	France, Bordeaux
Sub-district	Haut Médoc	Village	Saint Julien
Classification	4ème Cru Classé	ABV	13.5%

Colour	Red
Origin	France, Bordeaux
Sub-district	Haut Médoc
Village	Saint Julien
Classification	4ème Cru Classé
ABV	13.5%

Enjoyable, well balanced, great inky depths of flavour, an enjoyable, sleek and confident St Julien, with an effortless finesse where you feel they aren't trying too hard to impress, just harnessing the drinkability of the vintage with its black fruit and liquorice character. Give it a few years, then sink into the pleasure of this wine. 45hl/ha yield, third year of organic conversion. Drinking range: 2029 - 2040 Rating: 95 Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com (May 2024)

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The 2023 Saint-Pierre (Saint-Julien) is packed with blackberry jam, gravel, lavender, dried herbs, spice and crushed rocks. There’s a ton of character here. Incisive tannins and bright acids pull it all together in style. Give this at least a few years to soften. Tasted two times. Drinking range: 2030 - 2045 Rating: 93-95 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (May 2024)

Very nicely creamed fruit on the nose, all currant, dark cherry, wild berries with a little white chocolate suggestion. This translates into a quite bright and beautiful structure on the palate, with a rather juicy layer of fruit, draped over finely grained tannins. Sweet, peppery, convincing, with perfumed fruits, this is taut, linear and very attractive. It concludes with a flourish of firm and grippy tannins in the finish, which persist long thereafter, adding a huge, toasted grip to the length. A good result in the 2023 vintage, this is going to need time. Tasted twice. Rating: 91-93 Chris Kissack, www.thewinedoctor.com (Apr 2024)

A strong effort, the 2023 Saint-Pierre unwinds in the glass with aromas of cassis, dark berries and incense, framed by a deft touch of new oak. Medium to full-bodied, rich and layered, with good mid-palate density, powdery tannins and lively acids, it's a classically proportioned Saint-Julien that will age with grace. The blend is 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot. Rating: 92-94 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Apr 2024)

Château Saint Pierre

St Julien Quatrième cru 1855 At 17ha Château Saint Pierre is the smallest classed growth estate in St Julien. The name is derived from the Baron de Saint-Pierre who owned the estate at the tail end of the 18th Century. He left Saint-Pierre to his two daughters who, after running the estate together for a while, divided Saint-Pierre in two in 1832. The Dutch company, Van den Bussche bought both bits of Saint-Pierre in 1923 and re-united the estate. In 1982, Henri Martin (the man who assembled the Château Gloria from bits of vineyard purchased from various St Julien estates, including Saint-Pierre) bought the estate and he, and his daughter and son-in law Françoise and Jean-Louis Triaudand, have done much to raise the profile of this oft over-looked château. The vineyards are planted to 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, with the wines being made at Château Gloria. Although renewed reputation has pushed the price up a little in recent years, Saint-Pierre still represents quite good value for some nicely made darkly coloured St Julien.

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