Chateau Tour Saint Christophe St Emilion Grand Cru 2020 Deep

$105.00

Chateau Tour Saint Christophe 2020 is ripe but restained, savoury with a dry finish. What really stood out is the great mouthfeel.

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Chateau Tour Saint Christophe is a new wine to my Bordeaux appreciation. But I feel I’ve found it just at the right time. The ownership of Chateau Tour Saint Christophe has bought a few other underperforming estates and re-invigorated them beyond all expectations. Chateau Tour Saint Christophe 2020 is ripe but restained, savoury with a dry finish. What really stood out to me is Chateau Tour Saint Christophe already has a great mouthfeel. If you read the reviews below you’ll see the experts are suggesting Chateau Tour Saint Christophe will be great from release until 20 years of age!

Chateau Tour Saint Christophe St Emilion Grand Cru 2020 is sold En-Primeur. You order and pay now, to receive the En-Primeur pricing. You will receive the wine in mid-late 2023

The vines are in the commune of Saint Christophe des Bardes. Due east of the Saint Emilion village, close to Valandraud and Fleur Cardinale. Peter Kwok purchased Tour Saint Christophe in 2012. Along with Chateau Tour Saint Christophe, he owns Haut Brisson, Enclos Tourmaline, La Patache, Enclos de Viaud, and my new favourite Bellefont-Belcier.

Chateau Tour Saint Christophe is 20 hectare on clay and limestone soils. The vineyard is 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. The vineyard is organic & biodynamically farmed.

Peter Kwok has intentionally kept the price of Chateau Tour Saint Christophe low. As people learn of the quality, the price will increase.

Chateau Tour Saint Christophe St Emilion Grand Cru 2020 Wine Review

The Wine Cellar Insider
96 points
Deep, and dark in color, and equally dark and deep in its fruit, the nose pops with perfectly ripe dark red and black fruits, licorice, smoke, cherry blossoms, crushed rocks and stones. The wine has depth, sensuality, luscious textures and layers of ripe, opulent fruits. The finish lingers with layers of black and red fruits with dark chocolate that feel as good as they taste. This could be the finest vintage of Tour Sant Christophe ever produced, and that is really saying something. The wine is made from blending 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. You can age for 20-25 years. Or if you like, you can also enjoy this on the young side.

Jane Anson
Decanter
93 points
Clean and precisely-spliced black fruits, austerity in the tannins and a mocha, grilled coffee bean edging through the finish. Good quality and well balanced, intense to the point of slightly bitter on the final moments. Drinking Window 2025 – 2040

Bordeaux

Situated near the Atlantic coast of France. The Gironde, Dordogne and Garonne rivers provide its shape. Cool conditions and frequent rainfall, including during harvest time, make Bordeaux quite a marginal region with vintages frequently ruined by rain or saved from the rain at the last minute by timely sunshine.

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Saint-Emilion

With approximately 5400 hectares planted it is a vast appellation with a few distinct personalities. Like the famous neighbour Pomerol, the wines are Merlot dominant and offer the silk, perfume and charm that Merlot can give. The best of the wines will live as long as, if not longer than most Left Bank wines and often cost two or three times more.

Cabernet Sauvignon

The noble variety of Bordeaux’s left bank. Firm tannins, a streak of acidity and punctuated by flavours of cassis, violets, spice and leather. The best examples can age for the long-term. Although Cabernet does often require blending with Merlot, Cabernet Franc or Shiraz to fix the hole it has in its middle palate.

Merlot

It gets a tough time most of the places it is grown. But in Pomerol and Saint-Emilion Merlot not only dominates but makes some of the best wines in the world. Perfume, silky and plush. Cabernets Franc and Sauvignon season the wines with structure and acid but in some places, like Petrus, they are almost not needed.

French Wine

The land that so many New World (not European) wine producers look to emulate. To generalise about French wine, I would say it is savoury, lighter-bodied wines. They are the definition of elegant, complex. There are many styles, though. And there is a French wine for every palate. They lead the world in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in Burgundy. Sparkling Wine in Champagne. Cabernet and Merlot in Bordeaux. Syrah(Shiraz) and Grenache in the Rhone Valley. Riesling, Gewurztraminer, and Pinot Gris in Alsace. Sauvignon Blanc, and Chenin Blanc in the Loire Valley. Gamay in Beaujolais.

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Wine

Wine is the result you get from fermented grape juice. There is proof of wine production dating back 8000 years ago. Fashions, innovations and many other factors have influenced the way wine has evolved over the years.

The wine grape is pretty special. It contains everything you need to make grape wine except for the yeast, which lives on the outside of the skins.

Human inputs can influence the final product. This includes the viticulture (growing) choices. And the winemaker can shape the wine to a point too.

The best wines of the world often refer to terroir. This is a French term that refers to all the climatic, geological and topographical influences on a specific piece of land. And it is true that neighbouring vineyards, grown identically, can taste noticeably different.

Red Wine

Fun fact; most of the colour for wines comes from the skins. There are only a handful of grapes that have red juice. Alicante is the most well known of these grapes.

By macerating the juice on the skins, the wine gains tannins, and flavours. Certain compounds change the chemistry of the wine too.

Red wines tend to have higher alcohol. More tannin and more oak flavours compared to other styles of wine. But the thousands of grapes and terroirs they grow in influence this.

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Chateau Tour Saint Christophe St-Emilion Grand Cru 2019
Chateau Tour Saint Christophe St-Emilion Grand Cru 2020

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