2014 Calon Segur
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Tasting notes
The 2014 Calon Ségur has a fresh and vibrant nose, a bit backward and broody, but there is concentration here, just tightly coiled at the moment. There are touches of iodine and sea spray present. The palate is medium-bodied with juicy ripe tannins, quite dense and fleshy, but there is enormous weight and backbone on the back end that I think will see this mature in style. Tasted blind at Bordeaux Index's 10-Year-On tasting and Southwold 10-Year-On tasting.
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More reviews and scores
Tasted blind. Youthfully dark garnet. Sweetly fruited, both black and red. Leafy, open and inviting. I thought it might be very slightly bretty/meaty but this impression was not shared by most in the group. Compact, fine tannins, just a little bitter on the aftertaste. But the fruit is excellent and I put this up half a point on retasting. It was the overall top-scorer in the St-Estèphe flight even though it was not my highest scorer. (JH)
Blackberry and cassis fruits, liquorice root, salted carramel, feels very much at the start of its drinking window, tannins beginning to smooth out, corners softened, tobacco notes rising from mid palate onwards. This is enjoyable and accomplished, with grip and character. 100% new oak. Two years after it had been sold by the Gasqueton family to Suravenir Insurance.
Inky plum in colour, dusky rose on the rim, still vibrant and full of energy. This is excellent quality, combining crushed rocks, blackberry puree, bright plum and greengage fruits, juicy acidities. Conveys tension and backbone, and the salinity and finesse of ripe Cabernet Sauvignon on these gravel-clay soils. 3.7ph.
About the producer
Wedding gift lists traditionally include wine glasses or cutlery, but in 1718, Nicolas-Alexandre de Ségur, the owner of Château Lafite and Château Latour and president of the Bordeaux parliament, received a rather more impressive present: Château Calon.