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Château Calon Ségur, 3ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe
Château Calon Ségur

Château Calon Ségur, 3ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe,

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Château Calon Ségur, 3ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe, 2005

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note
Château Calon Ségur, 3ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe, 2005

Another great success from Madame Capbern-Gasqueton, whose unique terroir shines though clearly in this medium-bodied, fruit-driven 2005. A distinctive nose of almonds and nut kernels leads to a palate characterised by velvety tannins and delicious, pure red berry fruit. Open-knit and very approachable even at this early stage, this wine has the potential to fill out into one of the best Calons ever.

Maturity:
Keep/Drink
ABV:
13%
96/100
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
The classic Gasqueton years, when Calon was for the initiated, and they held on fervently to their insider status. Beautiful ruby red colour, rapsberry puree and cocoa dusting aromatics, still young, a wonderfully embracing tannic frame, rapsberrry, blueberry and loganberry fruits, slate-scraping minerality, just a gorgeous wine that is bursting out of the glass and still has so much more to give. Balanced, mouthwatering, persistent, just at the start of its long and pleasure-filled life, showcasing so much that is wonderful about 2005. Get on board. This is a 2 point higher score than the last time I tasted in April 2021, reflecting that the 2005s are just right now beginning to open up. 50% new oak.
Date Reviewed:
09/2022
92+/100
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Deep, bright ruby-red. Deeply pitched aromas of black raspberry, black cherry, leather, smoked meat, earth and menthol. Chewy, brooding and deep, with concentrated black cherry, menthol, mineral and leather flavors framed by a powerful spine of acids and tannins. Really saturates the palate on the tannic back end. I'd give this classic St. Estephe a decade of aging, at which time this wine may well merit an even higher score.
Date Reviewed:
05/2008

specifications

country:
France
region:
Bordeaux
Appellation:
St Estèphe
Producer:
Château Calon Ségur
style:
Red
Grape Variety:
Cab Sauvignon Merlot
Allergen Information:
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Château Calon Ségur

Château Calon Ségur

This is the most northerly of all the wines classified in 1855. The estate is steeped in history, once forming part of the Segur estate which incorporated Phelan Segur as well as Lafite, Latour and Mouton. The Marquis de Segur famously declared that ‘I make my wine at Lafite and Latour but my heart is in Calon’. This presumably explains the proliferation of hearts at the estate and on the label.

More recently, following her husband’s death in 1995, Denise Capbern Gasqueton has managed the estate. Her wines are classical, true to their terroir and have found much admiration from collectors and drinkers. Madame Capbern Gasqueton passed away in 2011 and the estate has been sold to the French Insurance company Suravenir. A new chapter starts...

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