chateau st pierre 4eme cru classe st julien

Château St Pierre

Château St Pierre, 4ème Cru Classé, St Julien, 2008

Name: Château St Pierre, 4ème Cru Classé, St Julien
Brand: Château St Pierre
Price: 617.47 GBP

93/100

Inside Bordeaux

92/100

The Wine Independent

91+/100

Vinous

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2008
12x75cl
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£617.47

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Critic Reviews

92/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

The 2008 Saint-Pierre is medium to deep garnet-brick colored. It shoots out with expressive scents of dried cherries, mulberries, and prunes, plus hints of mossy tree bark, star anise, and leather. The medium-bodied palate is lively and laden with minerally accents, supported by soft tannins, finishing long and lifted.

drinking window 2023 - 2030

date of review 02/2023

93/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

The 2008 has soft berry fruits, cold ash, tobacco, smoky cigar notes, great balance and finesse. Melted tannins that are ready to drink, with chocolate and liqourice filling out the frame in the mid-palate, and gentle black pepper spice on the finish. This was the vintage where serious cellar improvements began, with the addition of small stainless steel vats to allow more plot by plot selection. 50% new oak.

drinking window 2022 - 2036

date of review 02/2022

91+/100

Stephen Tanzer,

Vinous

Serious medium ruby. Very ripe aromas of cassis, minerals and licorice. Ripe and thick on entry, then concentrated but rather backward in the mid-palate, with a firm mineral spine and sound acids giving lift and shape to the fully ripe dark fruit and licorice flavors. This builds impressively on the back end, finishing with serious but ripe tannins that reach the front teeth. I'd lay this down for six or seven years.

date of review 07/2011

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