Château Gloria

Château Gloria, St Julien, 2021

Name: Château Gloria, St Julien
Brand: Château Gloria
Price: 209.14 GBP

91/100

Inside Bordeaux

89/100

The Wine Independent

93/100

Vinous

Available Vintages

delivery

in bond

portfolio

Last Few
2021
75cl
DP
£34.86
Last Few
2021
6x75cl
DP
£209.14

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Produced from 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 14% Petit Verdot and 6% Cabernet Franc. Gloria is often one of the best value St Juliens, and again, in a rather disappointing UGC tasting, this was one of the highlights. Plenty of concentration and energy, dark and earthy. There's a solid core of sweet cherry fruit. It dries a little on the finish, but we're confident this perennial overachiever with come good.

delivery information

GUARANTEED PROVENANCE

Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

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.

Further Reassurance

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

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

The 2021 Gloria has a medium to deep garnet-purple color. It bounds out with eager-to-please notes of black raspberries, Morello cherries and juicy plums, leading to hints of cinnamon stick and rose oil. The medium-bodied palate has a lightly chewy texture and just enough fruits, finishing a tad abruptly.

drinking window 2025 - 2033

date of review 04/2024

91/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

A sculpted wine with finesse and lift, a little soft through the mid palate. Lacks the signature exuberance that you normally find in Gloria but there is charming raspberry and loganberry fruit, with anis and liqourice. First year organic conversion, Jean Michel Comme vineyard consultant, Eric Boissenot wine. Harvest September 27 to October 9.

drinking window 2025 - 2036

date of review 04/2024

93/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2021 Gloria, which contains a healthy slug of Petit Verdot (14%), has a clean and pure bouquet with black cherries, bilberry, cedar and crushed violet scents, almost Margaux-like in style. The oak is nicely integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with a graphite-tinged entry. This is quite a "vertical" Gloria, conservative in some ways, yet it does not compensate in terms of precision on the finish, and it feels reassuringly long on the aftertaste. There’s good potential here.

drinking window 2027 - 2045

date of review 02/2024

product details

Specifications

Country:

Region:

Appellation:

Producer:

style:

Grape Variety:

abv:

13.5%

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.