Château Talbot St-Julien 4. Cru Classé 2016

"Rock 'em, sock 'em St.-Julien, with mouthcoating ganache and tar notes"

- James Suckling

Anmeldelser af Château Talbot St-Julien 4. Cru Classé 2016

96/100 Bettane & Desseauve

95/100 Wine Spectator
"Rock 'em, sock 'em St.-Julien, with mouthcoating ganache and tar notes backed by commensurate cassis, blueberry paste and blackberry reduction flavors. The long finish rumbles through, with buried brambly grip providing the support for the dense fruit and toast to meld."

94/100 James Suckling
"This is already a beautiful St.-Julien that’s ripe and elegant with not a jot too much oak or tannin, but a very fresh and lively finish that keeps on going."

94/100 Decanter 
"Lovely deep damson colour with violet edging that suggests a healthy pH. Great balance of fruit and acidity, this is one of the fresher wines of the appellation. The fruit is cleanly extracted, fresh and well paced, with a lovely layer of complexity driven by smoke-edged mineral notes." 

94/100 Vinous
"The 2016 Talbot is aromatically quite expressive, but less available on the palate, where it is quite closed down. Time in the glass brings out a host of sweet tobacco, smoke, leather, cedar, mint, licorice and red-toned fruit. In two tastings, Talbot gave the impression it is going to need at least a few years to fully come into its own. Even so there is plenty to look forward to once the tannins start to melt away a bit. Consultants Stéphane Derenoncourt and Julien Lavenu have done quite a bit to raise the bar here, but I get a sense more is possible. Tasted two times."

94/100 Vert de Vin Magazine
"The nose is fresh, slight and fruity. It reveals slight notes of fresh blackberry, blackberry and strawberry associated with slight notes of racy minerality (terroir), chocolate truffle as well as slight toasted hints/cardamom and a discreet/imperceptible hint of cornflower. The palate is fruity, nicely juicy, well-balanced, marked by red fruits and offers gourmandise, a beautiful freshness, a slight tension as well as a racy minerality. It’s slightly fleshy on the mid-palate. In the mouth this wine expresses notes of fleshy/juicy blackberry, fresh strawberry and fresh raspberry associated with slight notes of redcurrant/cassis, toasted oak/chocolate as well as hints of caramelized oak and a slight hint of almost salin minerality on the finish. Tannins are fine and polished. Good length. A success!"

93-95/100 Wine Enthusiast
"This is a juicy wine, already bursting with fruit and well-integrated tannins. It is a wine with a medium-term future, best enjoyed around 2026.“

Bag om Château Talbot 

Château Talbot er tilbage i form. Den berømte 4. Cru Classé fra St-Julien var især 1980’erne lidt af en ”humørspiller” – nogle gange fabelagtig, men ofte skuffende.

Siden ansættelsen af ønologen Stephane Derenoncourt i 2007 er kvaliteten øget ved bl.a. sænket høstudbytte og plukning af mere fuldmodne druer. En strengere sortering har også forbedret ”le Grand Vin”, da 40% af druehøsten nu sorteres fra til 2. vinen Connétable Talbot.

Med indvielsen af et nyt vineri i 2013 har ratings fået fortjente nøk i den rigtige retning. Slottet har siden 1917 været drevet af Negociant-familien Cordier, der for nylig har ansat Jean-Michel Laporte som teknisk direktør. Jean-Michel kommer fra samme stilling hos Ch. La Conseillante, Pomerol.