Château Gloria, St Julien, 2018

Name: Château Gloria, St Julien
Brand: Château Gloria

Available Vintages

all 2008 2010 2015 2016 2022 2023 2024

justerini & brooks tasting note

We're normally admirers of Henri Martin's St Juliens: Gloria and St Pierre. They are made in a unique style, but often offer lots of hedonistic fruit and toasty oak, and succeed. The 2016s appear to be a little over the top and pumped up. It feels like the extractions went a bit too far and the tannins are overly dry and bitter. We'll see... 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot.

critic reviews

94/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

The 2018 Gloria is deep garnet-purple in color. It gallops out with energetic notes of redcurrants, wild blueberries, and warm cassis, plus hints of rose oil, licorice, and tar. Full-bodied, the palate is jam-packed with black fruit layers, framed by ripe, velvety tannins and just enough freshness, finishing long and lifted.

DRINKING WINDOW 2023 - 2042

date of review 02/2023

94/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Mint leaf, marzipan, fennel, smoked earth, fig, freshly grated black truffle, and a ton of cassis fruit. This is young but complex, with a bright future. The only wine in the vertical that is above 14% in alcohol, a reflection of the vintage, and a reminder in fact of just how balanced and old school St Julien is almost every year. Good stuff, full of life. 40% new oak. Harvest September 20 to October 1. Remi di Constanzo technical director.

DRINKING WINDOW 2028 - 2046

date of review 01/2023

91/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2018 Gloria is a strong effort in this lush, fruit-driven Bordeaux vintage. Offering up aromas of blackberries, blackcurrants and licorice, it's medium to full-bodied, rich and fleshy, with an ample core of fruit, ripe acids and sweet tannins. Purists will gravitate to the 2019 and 2016, but this demonstrative, hedonistic 2018 can already be approached with pleasure.

DRINKING WINDOW 2022 - 2038

date of review 10/2022

93/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2018 Gloria has a wonderful, harmonious bouquet of copious blackberry, briary, cedar and tobacco notes that just feels so... effortless. The very harmonious palate offers pure black fruit laced with graphite. Displaying moderate weight and fine acidity, and quite linear and focused on the finish, this is a very classy Gloria that may warrant a higher score down the line.

DRINKING WINDOW 2024 - 2050

date of review 03/2021