• CHÂTEAU CROIX DE LABRIE 2018 - Saint Emilion Grand Cru, Bordeaux - France
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CHÂTEAU CROIX DE LABRIE 2018 - Saint Emilion Grand Cru, Bordeaux - France

Vintage: 2018

WTWBO025218

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"A rich, powerful red with so much fruit and intensity. It’s full-bodied with masses of fruit with vanilla and coffee character and a long, warm finish. Layered and intense. Really needs time in the bottle to come together. Better after 2025." - James Suckling

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"A rich, powerful red with so much fruit and intensity. It’s full-bodied with masses of fruit with vanilla and coffee character and a long, warm finish. Layered and intense. Really needs time in the bottle to come together. Better after 2025." - James Suckling
Awards
James Suckling 96 Points
As one of the most famous American wine critics and journalists, James Suckling is among the leading experts on wines and was a former editor for Wine Spectator. He now conducts his own personal reviews online and conferences
Robert Parker Wine Advocate 94 Points
Probably the most famous and influential wine critic and journalist in the world, Robert Parker founded the famous American magazine, The Wine Advocate and made his 100-point system a benchmark for the entire industry.
"A rich, powerful red with so much fruit and intensity. It’s full-bodied with masses of fruit with vanilla and coffee character and a long, warm finish. Layered and intense. Really needs time in the bottle to come together. Better after 2025."
96 Points, James Suckling
"The 2018 Croix de Labrie is a blend is 90% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Cabernet Franc, aged in 100% new oak barrels for approximately 18 months. The wine has 14% alcohol. Deep garnet-purple colored, it needs a fair bit of swirling and coaxing to unlock notions of Black Forest cake, preserved plums and blackberry pie with suggestions of star anise, tilled soil, Indian spices and tobacco leaf. The medium to full-bodied palate has a sturdy structure of firm, grainy tannins and plenty of freshness supporting the muscular black fruits, finishing on a lingering fragrant earth note. Here's a beautifully expressed piece of Saint-Émilion turf on a clear upward trajectory! 94+"
94 Points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Product Type
Red Wine
Region

Bordeaux

Grape Varietal

97% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon

Winemakers

Axelle and Pierre Courdurie

Vintage

2018

Country

France

Age of Vines

51 years with some 100 years old Cabernet Sauvignon

Producers

Axelle & Pierre Courdurié

Harvest Method

The fruit is picked by hand and carried in wooden crates. Pickers go down each row several times. The fruit is manipulated using gravity only and is vinified in small tanks. Temperatures are fully controlled

Alcohol Percentage

15.00%

Fermentation and Maceration

cold maceration, 20% fermented in 500 liters barrels and the rest in small vats. Handpushing, low temperature fermentation.

Malolactic Fermentation

In new barrels made from French oak that have undergone medium to long toasting.

Aging

Ageing in new barrels for at least 18 months

Altitude of Vineyard

82m

Density

7000

Production Style

Organic

Total Production

between 8,000 and 9,000 bottles per year

SKU
WTWBO025218
Château Croix de Labrie vines grow on some of the finest Saint-Emilion terroirs with plots located at

Badon, below the Pavie hillside and on the heights of Saint-Christophe des Bardes.



At Badon the soils are made up of sand and clay with traces of iron oxide and a clayey limestone subsoil. These

soils drain well, which produces elegance in the wine. The terroir in Saint Christophe-des-Bardes consists of

asteriated clayey limestone, which contributes complexity and density to the wines.

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