Chateau Petit Village 2017
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Blend: 71% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon
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James Suckling
A tight, structured red with plenty of chocolate, dark-berry, walnut and cedar character, working together to create a complex and structured red with lots of fruit and chewy, silky tannins. Better after 2022.
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Wine Spectator
Caressing in feel, with creamed plum and raspberry puree flavors lined with singed sandalwood and black tea notes. A subtle mineral edge helps the finish linger. Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now through 2032
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Jeb Dunnuck
The deeper ruby-hued 2017 Chateau Petit-Village checks in as 71% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and the balance Cabernet Sauvignon that saw malolactic fermentation in barrel and spent 16-18 months in 60% new French oak. It's a beautiful, sexy wine loaded with notions of creme de cassis, black raspberries, white flowers, toasted spice, and graphite. With medium to full body, a rounded, opulent texture, ripe tannins, and a great finish, it's a beautiful wine well worth seeking out. It should evolve for 10-12 years, if not longer.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Petit Village was completely spared from the frosts in 2017. Composed of 71% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 9% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2017 Petit Village is deep garnet-purple in color and is a little reticent to begin, with slowly emerging notes of warms plums, blackberry pie and baked blueberries plus sparks of kirsch, licorice, camphor and chargrill. The palate is medium to full-bodied with a generous amount of mid-palate flesh and really ripe, plush tannins, finishing with loads of blue, black and red fruit layers.
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Wine Enthusiast
This wine, from an estate under the same ownership as Pichon-Baron in Pauillac, has considerable tannin, masking the fruit. Structure is important than the fruit. While it will soften, it will probably remain dry. K&L Wine Merchants.
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Decanter
This is enjoyable, you can see that they have carefully worked the structure and the fruit, majoring on cedar and raspberry to convey some Pomerol lusciousness. A little tight through the finish, suggesting that they picked just a few days earlier than ideal. Drinking Window 2022 - 2040
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One of the world’s most classic and popular styles of red wine, Bordeaux-inspired blends have spread from their homeland in France to nearly every corner of the New World. Typically based on either Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot and supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, the best of these are densely hued, fragrant, full of fruit and boast a structure that begs for cellar time. Somm Secret—Blends from Bordeaux are generally earthier compared to those from the New World, which tend to be fruit-dominant.
A source of exceptionally sensual and glamorous red wines, Pomerol is actually a rather small appellation in an unassuming countryside. It sits on a plateau immediately northeast of the city of Libourne on the right bank of the Dordogne River. Pomerol and St-Émilion are the stars of what is referred to as Right Bank Bordeaux: Merlot-dominant red blends completed by various amounts of Cabernet Franc or Cabernet Sauvignon. While Pomerol has no official classification system, its best wines are some of the world’s most sought after.
Historically Pomerol attached itself to the larger and more picturesque neighboring region of St-Émilion until the late 1800s when discerning French consumers began to recognize the quality and distinction of Pomerol on its own. Its popularity spread to northern Europe in the early 1900s.
After some notable vintages of the 1940s, the Pomerol producer, Petrus, began to achieve great international attention and brought widespread recognition to the appellation. Its subsequent distribution by the successful Libourne merchant, Jean-Pierre Mouiex, magnified Pomerol's fame after the Second World War.
Perfect for Merlot, the soils of Pomerol—clay on top of well-drained subsoil—help to create wines capable of displaying an unprecedented concentration of color and flavor.
The best Pomerol wines will be intensely hued, with qualities of fresh wild berries, dried fig or concentrated black plum preserves. Aromas may be of forest floor, sifted cocoa powder, anise, exotic spice or toasted sugar and will have a silky, smooth but intense texture.