Chateau Clauzet Saint Estephe 2015

Château Clauzet, currently owned by Baron Maurice Velge, is born from a dream. President of Antwerp, his home city and the 1993 cultural capital of Europe, fond of hunting, arts, culture and wine like his father, he decides to invest in the vineyard of Saint-Estèphe. He could have bought a classified growth based on fame and an idealized image but he preferred to take an interest in the best terroirs of the appellation.

A challenge, a motivation, aiming at doing better every day, at understanding the constraints to turn them into qualities and to give a genuine personality to his wines.

In 1997 he purchases in this communal appellation in the most Northern of the Médoc, two exceptional and contrasted terroirs, two Crus Bourgeois Supérieurs: 8 hectares for Château Clauzet and 2 hectares for Château de Côme.

Located between the Chateaus Montrose, Meney, Marbuzet, Phélan Ségur, Canon-Ségur and Cos d’Estournel, both vineyards now total nearly 30 hectares, with two complementary personalities.

Closer to the river, Château Clauzet is settled on deep gravelly soils in which the vines go and find the water tables 12 meters below. The different geologic layers provide comple­xity and a nuanced aromatic range.

Little by little, Maurice Velge managed to increase his domain and his fame thanks to the quality of his wines and the inclusion of José Bueno, formerly Cellar master in the estates Baron Philippe de Rothschild.

Since 2008, oenologist Eric Boissenot also gives his advice for these domains managed in a global and scrupulous vision of the vine with very controlled yields (40 hl/ha) and measured ageing.

Chateau Clauzet is a wine that regularly shows good organoleptic characteristics. Pleasant already in his youth, during the best vintages is even able to compete with the best samples of Bordeaux. Vintage 2015 was marked by the specialists as the delicate, refined and has a lot of charm. This classic, pretty typical for Saint-Estephe vintage is characterized by intense colour, complex aroma, fine tannins and a clean fruitiness. wine will be at the peak of ripeness in the period from 2019 to 2030. 

The wine is a deep, rich purple color. Complex aroma of wine shows hints of chocolate, vanilla, spices and red fruits. The taste of medium intensity wine, sweet, combining the wealth, power and refinement with a fine tannins, clean fruit tones and a long aftertaste.

Award:

92 Wine Enthusiast

16.5/20 Jancis Robinson

VIVINO 4.1