chateau quinault lenclos st emilion grand cru

Château Quinault L'Enclos

Château Quinault L'Enclos, St Emilion Grand Cru, 2020

Name: Château Quinault L'Enclos, St Emilion Grand Cru
Brand: Château Quinault L'Enclos
Price: 207.94 GBP

93/100

Inside Bordeaux

90/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93/100

The Wine Independent

89/100

Vinous

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2020
6x75cl
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£207.94

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

“The colour grows with purple reflections. The nose expresses a lovely black, ripe fruitiness where balsamic and tobacco notes mingle with a liquorice freshness. The ample and fruity attack continues on a tender mid-palate of medium constitution. The tannins then gradually tighten up and firm up the texture in the mouth. 78% Merlot and 22% Cabernet Franc.” - Chateau note.

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

89/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2020 Quinault L'Enclos feels a bit overripe on the nose with fig- and date-infused black fruit. It's rather glossy and missing some complexity. The palate is medium-bodied and quite oaky with ripe tannins. It's a powerful and burly Right Bank that leans more toward a hedonistic style but doesn't quite have the finesse to pull it off. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.

drinking window 2026 - 2039

date of review 11/2024

90/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2020 Quinault l'Enclos offers up aromas of cherries, plums and crushed mint, followed by a medium to full-bodied, velvety and lively palate built around powdery tannins that somewhat temper this site's proclivity for an overt, even obvious, expression of fruit.

drinking window 2023 - 2038

date of review 04/2023

93/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

A blend of 78% Merlot and 22% Cabernet Franc, the 2020 Quinault L’Enclos has a deep garnet-purple color. It comes bounding out of the glass with eager-to-please notes of baked black cherries, boysenberry preserves, and fruitcake, followed by hints of Indian spices, vanilla pod, and chocolate box. The medium to full-bodied palate is coated with seductive black fruit preserves, framed by silky, well-managed tannins and just enough freshness, finishing long and spicy.

drinking window 2025 - 2045

date of review 03/2023

93/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Loaded with energy and grip, majoring on black pepper, damson and black cherry fruit. The tannins remain austere at this point, pretty serious and closed down, with waves of espresso and violet promising more to come over the next decade. Pierre Lurton director of this 19ha estate, Pierre-Olivier Clouet technical director. Harvest September 3 to 23, an upscore from En Primeur.

drinking window 2024 - 2038

date of review 02/2023

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Specifications

Country:

France

Region:

Bordeaux

Appellation:

St Emilion

Producer:

Château Quinault L'Enclos

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Merlot Cabernet

abv:

14%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.