Phélan Ségur 2019
Descripción
La Cabernet sauvignon es la uva reina en la apelación Saint-Estèphe y en Phelan Ségur se extiende a lo largo de un viñedo de casi 70 hectáreas asentado sobre gravas arcillosas. Aportando poderío y una estructura incomparable, es la verdadera columna vertebral de este gran vino. La cercanía de las viñas al estuario las protege de las inclemencias del tiempo, una ubicación privilegiada que comparten con nombres como Châteaux Montrose y Calon Ségur. Según los primeros apuntes de la crítica estamos ante una de las mejores añadas de este tinto intenso y concentrado, con taninos presentes y, al mismo tiempo, discretos.
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Opinión de los críticos
This is a very classically structured Bordeaux with blackcurrant, walnut, cedar and hints of toasted oak. It’s reserved now, but shows very serious, polished tannins. Persistent and powerful with fantastic length. Very precise. Try after 2025.
The 2019 Château Phelan Segur from Véronique Dausse is another brilliant Saint-Estèphe in the vintage, and this estate plays in the top handful of Saint-Estèphes out there. Offering lots of darker currants, spiced plums, Iron, tobacco, and damp earth on the nose, it hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a concentrated, tannic, yet balanced mouthfeel, and a great finish. It needs to be forgotten for a good 5-7 years and will be a brilliant wine over the following two decades.
Is this the most over-performing estate in the Médoc? Director Véronique Dausse would surely riposte that it's simply performing at the level to which its well-situated vineyards and detail-oriented team entitle it; but in any case, the 2019 Phélan Ségur is a brilliant wine. Offering up aromas of cassis, sweet wild berries, rose petals, violets, licorice and spices, it's medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with tangy acids, powdery tannins and a long, penetrating finish. This is another 2019 that en primeur purchasers can feel very pleased with.
Another impressive vintage at this estate, one that is regularly turning out wines to sit up and take notice of. A touch more austerity than was seen at this stage in the 2018, but the same level of intensity and concentration and just sheer confidence without trying too hard. Undertow of crushed granite and liquorice root, with real precision in the cassis fruits, and a wall of tannins that manage to be both present and unobtrusive. Great winemaking going on here. 56% new oak, 3.8pH, 1PT81. Could go higher when retasting in bottle. Tasted twice two weeks apart. Drinking Window 2026 - 2042
Añadas: 2022 2020 2019 2018
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Excelente. Para beber despacio.
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