Le Dragon de Quintus, St Emilion, Grand Cru
Château Quintus

Le Dragon de Quintus, St Emilion, Grand Cru


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vintage


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2020
6x75cl
DP
£203.84

2021
6x75cl
DP
£192.02

2021
6x75cl
DP
£192.02

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En Primeur
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2022
6x75cl
EP
£174.00


Le Dragon de Quintus, St Emilion, Grand Cru, 2020

2020

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Le Dragon de Quintus, St Emilion, Grand Cru, 2020
Maturity:
Keep
ABV:
15.5%
92/100
Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Independent

Deep garnet in color, the 2020 Le Dragon de Quintus sashays out with ready-to-dance notes of ripe, juicy plums, boysenberries, and black raspberries, followed by undertones of star anise and Indian spices plus a waft of cedar. Full-bodied, rich, and plush, the palate is jam-packed with black fruit, delivering a long, lifted finish.
Date Reviewed:
07/2022
90-92/100
Neal Martin, Vinous

The 2020 Le Dragon de Quintus has a bold, generous bouquet of licorice-infused black fruit, touches of incense and potpourri emerging with aeration. The palate is very smooth on the entry, quite lush and pure, and lightly spiced, leading to a cohesive, seductive finish of fine length for a Deuxième Vin. This should give 12–15 years of drinking enjoyment.
Date Reviewed:
05/2021

specifications

country:
France

region:
Bordeaux

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Allergen Information:
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Château Quintus

Château Quintus

Quintus is Prince Robert of Luxembourg's new project in St Emilion. 'The estate naturally wraps around a high promontory which represents the end of the plateau of Saint-Émilion. The vineyard benefits from a majestic panorama extending towards the neighbouring village and across the entire Dordogne valley. It is in this place that, for time immemorial, a watch tower has stood to ensure the defence of the village of Saint-Emilion.

The originality of this extraordinary terroir lies in its diversity of soils, slopes and orientations. It is therefore hardly surprising that this wine was featured between 1844 and 1848 among the 14 most sought after and most expensive wines of Saint-Émilion. For close to a century the great reference book Cocks and Feret “Bordeaux et ses Vins” will consistently mention the property as a First Growth of Saint-Emilion. The vineyard was also one of the prominent Saint-Emilion estates to receive a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1867.

A text found in another great book of the time “Les Grands Vins de Gironde” de Dumas et Lallemand (1899) reads: “One cannot imagine a more beautiful situation for an estate, or one more favourable for the production of a First Growth wine (…). Thanks to the excellent vinification practices undertaken at this estate, the wine produced here reflects great body, ripeness and an armature that exemplify the great wines of Saint-Emilion.”'

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