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| Region: |
St. Emilion, Bordeaux, France |
| Varietal: |
Merlot / Cabernet Franc |
| Classification: |
1er Grand Cru Classé (B)
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| Importer: |
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| Score: |
98-100VM |
| Review: |
"The 2022 La Gaffelière is a drop-dead gorgeous beauty. Refined, sculpted, and wonderfully precise, La Gaffelière has it all. Hints of lavender, mint, blood orange, spice and black cherry fruit all race across the glass. Clean mineral notes and fine tannins support the finish. The delineation here is simply breath taking. La Gaffelière is 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc. Elevage is expected to be 19 months in 50% new oak and 50% neutral barrels. The 2022 is another exceptional wine from the Malet Roquefort family." |
Staff Notes:
"The 2022 La Gaffelière is a drop-dead gorgeous beauty. Refined, sculpted, and wonderfully precise, La Gaffelière has it all. Hints of lavender, mint, blood orange, spice and black cherry fruit all race across the glass. Clean mineral notes and fine tannins support the finish. The delineation here is simply breath taking. La Gaffelière is 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc. Elevage is expected to be 19 months in 50% new oak and 50% neutral barrels. The 2022 is another exceptional wine from the Malet Roquefort family." 98-100 Antonio Galloni, Vinous, Vinous.com, Apr 2023
"This is serious. Bold and structured with beautiful fruit, which is crunchy and vibrant. Full body. Lots of complexity and depth with a wide and velvety tannin structure. Excellent length. Lots of blue fruits. Touch of whole cluster." 96-97 James Suckling, jamessuckling.com April 2023
"A blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, the 2022 La Gaffelière derives exclusively from the prime hillside vineyards below Ausone that made this estate so compelling in the early and mid-twentieth century, and the 2022 is the finest wine produced at this address in many a year, surpassing the 2019 and 2020 in quality. Wafting from the glass with incipiently complex aromas of wild berries, violets, lilac, licorice, vine smoke and raw cocoa, it's medium to full-bodied, supple and seamless, with a deep, multidimensional and beautifully vibrant core of fruit and polished tannins, concluding with a long, mouthwatering finish." 95-96 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, April 2023
"Such a delicious wine in 2022, with mouthwateringly sappy tannins, juicy and approachable while being muscular and stacked, and here the concentrated blackcurrant and loganberry fruit is studded through with oyster shell salinity. La Gaffelière is not the most high profile of the estates to have resigned from the St Emilion classification, but it's a real loss, because it is finding these type of wines that makes the ranking so worthwhile. Look out also for a 100% Cabernet Franc cuvee (not tasted, so I'll be looking out too) from this vintage to be released in a few years. Stéphane Derenoncourt consultant." 96 Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, janeanson.com April 2023
Bordeaux Future: Earliest Anticipated Arrival Fall 2025/Winter 2026
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