Chateau Chauvin (Futures Pre-Sale) 2021

Professional Ratings

• 93 Wine Enthusiast

  A powerfully rich wine from an estate that is seriously improved. The wine’s black-plum fruits and firm tannins are full of potential. This is a wine to age.

• 92 James Suckling

  Refined nose showing delicate sweet berries, white pepper spice, cigar box and cocoa powder. Elegant, bone-dry and linear on the palate with a medium body and pretty silky tannins. Not a wine for the depth of flavors or intensity. Finesse, delicacy and length are the key words. Already delicious, but can hold, too.

• 91 Decanter
  Dark chocolate touches on the nose are so appealing with violets and blackcurrants. Juicy and lively at first with the liquorice and clove elements following just closing the palate slightly into a more focused and linear style rather than being overly expansive. Tannins are fine and soft and this has a lovely graceful appeal despite the cool austere touches giving it a closed feel right now. Michel Rolland consultancy. Drinking Window: 2025 - 2040.
  Barrel Sample: 91
• 90 Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2021 Château Chauvin brings solid ripeness in its red, blue, and black fruits as well as subtle background oak, tobacco, and crushed stone-like minerality. It's medium-bodied and nicely balanced, with fine tannins and a good finish.