2020 Tour Saint Christophe
Rating 93 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2025 - 2040
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 7th Apr 2023
Source April 2023 Week 1, The Wine Advocate
The 2020 Tour Saint Christophe opens in the glass with aromas of sweet cherries, raspberries and petals, followed by a medium to full-bodied, lively and pure palate that's rich and fleshy, with generously extracted tannins asserting themselves on the finish. It's a modern, crowd-pleasing wine from clay-rich soils opposite Troplong Mondot in the commune Saint Christophe des Bardes.
サン・テミリオンにある2012年に現在オーナーのピータークオックとその娘のカレンが取得、シャトーと畑の改修を開始し、現在はサン・テミリオン グランクリュに約20haの畑を所有。
コンクリートのタンクと一部(約25%)はバリックで発酵。その後15カ月40%新樽、40%1回使用樽、20%2回使用樽で熟成。
赤いベリー系果実の香りがコショウやリコリスなどのスパイシーなニュアンスと交り合います。バランスも良く緊張感があり、タンニンも繊細。余韻も長くシルキーで、熟した果実味が特徴的な味わいです。
2019 Tour Saint Christophe
Reviewed by Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Issue Date 18th Jun 2020
Source June 2020 Week 3, The Wine Advocate
Rating 92 - 94+ points
Release Price NA
Drink Date NA
In 2012, Hong Kong-based Peter Kwok purchased this vineyard located in
Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes. The average age of vines is 30 years old.
The wine is aging in 40% new oak barrels, 40% one-year-old barrels and
20% two-year-old barrels. The blend is 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc,
with fruit from the Cassevert lieu-dit, and the wine has 14.3% alcohol at a pH of 3.6. Deep purple-black in color, the 2019 Tour Saint-Christophe leaps from the glass with gregarious notes of fresh red
and black cherries, mulberries and wild blueberries plus suggestions of eucalyptus, chocolate pie, cinnamon stick and clove oil with a waft of cedar chest. The full-bodied palate has seriously impressive freshness, featuring a firm, finely grained frame and loads of energetic blackfruit layers, finishing long and spicy.