Chateau Petit Village 2021

JAMES SUCKLING: "Blackberry, dark-chocolate and crushed-slate aromas and flavors. Some lead pencil, too. It’s full and medium-chewy with a fresh finish. Solid. 65% merlot, 26% cabernet franc and 9% cabernet sauvignon."

WEINWISSER: "65 % Merlot, 26 % Cabernet Franc, 9 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 25 hl/ha, 13.5 Vol.-%. Delikates Bouquet, reife Schattenmorelle, rote Johannisbeerdrops und verführerische Veilchen, dahinter ein Hauch Iris und Preiselbeeren. Am subtilen Gaumen mit seidiger Textur, herrlicher Extraktsüße, balancierter Rasse und engmaschigem Tanningerüst. Im konzentrierten Finale rotbeerig, helles Graphit und erhabene Adstringenz."

JEB DUNNUCK: "The 2021 Château Petit-Village showed brilliantly, and this is certainly a château readers should have on their short list. Beautiful black cherries, raspberries, violets, and floral notes define the bouquet, and it's medium-bodied on the palate, with a charming, supple, seamless mouthfeel that carries ripe, polished tannins, good mid-palate depth, and a great finish. It's unquestionably a gorgeous wine in the making."

DECANTER: "Perfumed and concentrated on the nose, pure black fruit aromas scented with juniper, blackcurrants and black cherries. Delicate and graceful in terms of flavour profile but with robust and firm tannins that coat the mouth with a wonderful succulence and high acidity. This delivers a soft chewiness where you get a full mouthfeel with lift and vibrancy as well as a cool menthol finish. Sharp and tart strawberries and red cherries but also chalky and wet stone elements. Feels well worked but with energy and sculpting. You get the precision here, feel the cleanness of the fruit and tension in the minerality. It’s beguiling in its approachability on the one hand and it’s structured, knitted core on the other. Muscled but elegant."

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "Aromas of dark berries, cherries, sweet spices and raw cocoa introduce the 2021 Petit Village, a medium to full-bodied, concentrated, ambitious wine that's layered and velvety, with lively acids and ripe but rather chewy tannins. The fruit of a rigorous selection, I appreciate all the hard work that's going here, but I wonder if a gentler touch with extraction might have delivered something more sensual. It's a blend of 65% Merlot, 26% Cabernet Franc and 9% Cabernet Sauvignon, and it was picked late but very quickly, benefiting from the Moulin family's large picking team."