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LE DRAGON DE QUINTUS

2023 Grand Cru Saint Emilion

Grapes Merlot, Cab Franc
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Saint Emilion & Satellites
Village Saint Emilion
Classification Grand Cru
ABV 14%

The 2023 Dragon de Quintus is a real success this year, revealing aromas of cassis, mulberries, dark wild berries and flowers. Moderately weighted and elegant, the wine on the palate is fleshy, round and seamless with a structuring, long finish. This is a blend of 71.6% Merlot and 28.4% Cabernet Franc. Drinking range: 2025 - 2035 Rating: 90-92 L&S (Apr 2024)


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Intense depth and character but with freshness, floral character, clear salinity, sappy tannins that are not entirely resolved, but there is good spice and impressive lift. Includes Merlot from the north facing vineyards, and this is sculpted and precise, juicy finish. Director Mariette Veyssiere. Drinking range: 2026 - 2034 Rating: 91 Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com (May 2024)

The 2023 Le Dragon de Quintus is a gorgeous, vibrant Saint-Émilion. Crushed flowers, red plum, spice, new leather and cedar lend notable energy and brightness. The 2023 is a fine Dragon with plenty of the breadth that is typical here, but in a slightly more restrained style than in past vintages. Drinking range: 2026 - 2035 Rating: 90-92 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (May 2024)

The blend is 71.6% Merlot and 28.4% Cabernet Franc, and it takes 35% of the crop. This will see 25% new oak. Plenty of perfumed fruit on the nose, blackcurrants and blackberries, laced with crushed chalk, cedar, liquorice and peonies. The palate impresses with a silky texture, carrying seams of dark fruits, fresh and driven, with liquorice, toast, currants and griottes, beneath which there sits a nicely integrated frame of tannins. Great energy and acidity here, giving this a lively and vigorous stance, an appealing feature which persists into the length. A lovely second wine here which will repay a little cellaring I am sure. The alcohol level is 14.1%. Rating: 92-94 Chris Kissack, www.thewinedoctor.com (Apr 2024)

Château Quintus

Domaines Clarence Dillon (Haut Brion) bought, in 2011, what used to be Château Tertre Daugay, a Grand cru Classé Saint Emilion. The name was chosen following the Roman tradition of calling the fifth child Quintus. The property was originally about 16 hectares of vines on a promontory on the south-west corner of the Saint Emilion plateau, with vines on the limestone of the plateau itself and sloping down on all sides on clay over the limestone base, looking over the Dordogne valley.

In 2013, the Dillon family acquired Château L'Arrosée which they include in the production of Chateau Quintus. This has expanded the property to 28 hectares of vines on a gently sloping plateau 68 meters above sea level in the south west of Saint Emilion. Soil type varies from limestone in the north of the property, to clay and gravel in the south. Merlot represents 66% of the vines planted; Cabernet Franc (26%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (8%) make up the rest.

There are two wines, Château Quintus and its second wine 'Le Dragon de Quintus'.

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