La Clotte

La Clotte, St Emilion Grand Cru, 2022

Name: La Clotte, St Emilion Grand Cru
Brand: La Clotte
Price: 471.53 GBP

96/100

Inside Bordeaux

92-94/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

95/100

The Wine Independent

93/100

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2022
6x75cl
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£471.53

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

La Clotte comprises four hectares of vineyards (2.5 of which are in production) on the limestone plateau neighbouring Ausone. Produced from 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc, the 2022 Clotte offers a fragrant and quite exuberant bouquet of kirsch, flowers, griotte and minerals mixed with savoury notes of smoke and cooked meats. The palate is broad and more backward than Moulin St George with notes of cherry liqueur and dark chocolate. It finishes with graphite, griotte, bittersweet fruits and salts on the detailed tannins.

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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.

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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.

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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

95/100

Chris Kissack,

The Wine Independent

A blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc from the Vauthier family of Ausone, the fruit sourced from vines planted on deep limestone rock on the plateau and slopes to the east of the town, and the élevage was in 100% new French oak barrels, for 18 months. Sweet and fragrant black cherry fruits on the nose, with layers of damson, blackcurrant, rose petals, white peach and orange peel. Very pure and delineated on the palate, with defined raspberry and black cherry fruits, with the same fragrant expression as seen on the nose, wrapped up in a richly knit blanket of tannins. This holds together beautifully, and displays a wonderfully harmonious finish with great length too. Very impressive – a serious and also delicious member of the family’s portfolio in this vintage. The alcohol on the label is 14.5%.

drinking window 2027 - 2047

date of review 06/2025

96/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Delivers precise and vivid black cherry and raspberry fruits, with fennel, aniseed, cocoa bean, sea spray, grip, plenty of personality and lift, such a confident and nuanced vintage of La Clotte, now going from strength to strength. 100% new oak, last year organic conversion.

drinking window 2028 - 2042

date of review 03/2025

93/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 La Clotte, part of the Vauthier family stable of properties, has been impressive in recent vintages. The bouquet offers wonderful purity and delineation with blackcurrant, crushed violet and a hint of camphor. This is almost Margaux-like in style. The medium-bodied palate features a patina of new oak on the entry that will need to be absorbed as it matured entirely in new wood with moderated toasting. The finish is silky smooth, though it will require five or six years in bottle to fully integrate the oak.

drinking window 2026 - 2046

date of review 02/2025

92-94/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

From a holding on the limestone plateau just outside the village, the 2022 La Clotte is one of the high points of the Vauthier portfolio this year, offering up attractive aromas of cherries, minty blackberries and raw cocoa, followed by a medium to full-bodied, supple and charming palate with a deep core of fruit, lively acids and refined tannins.

date of review 04/2023

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