Bordeaux red Saint-Estèphe 75cl
Merlot 55%, Cabernet Sauvignon 40%, Petit Verdot 5%
Cru Bourgeois 2021
Cave de France's notes: Haut-Marbuzet 2021 presents itself as a powerful, fleshy, and traditional wine, a Bordeaux with character, offering a beautiful balance between aromatic richness, a serious structure, and aging potential.
Visually, it displays a deep, purple robe with violet reflections, suggesting its concentration. The nose opens with aromas of ripe black fruits (blackcurrant, plum) accompanied by spicy, slightly smoky notes, and vanilla or mineral nuances, depending on aeration or the glass.
On the palate, this 2021 offers a dense and fleshy texture, with a present but fine and velvety tannic structure. The structure is balanced, combining firmness and elegance, with beautiful density, a certain freshness, and notable length.
This wine is already enjoyable when young, but it reveals its full potential over time: it will gain roundness and complexity with a few years of aging.
For food pairing, it particularly thrives with grilled or sauced red meats, game, or even rustic dishes and aged cheeses, which will highlight its structure and character.
Château Haut-Marbuzet stands out in the Saint-Estèphe appellation for a style that breaks with the often austere classicism of wines from this area. Its signature was born when the Duboscq family took the reins of the estate in 1952, breathing new life into a hitherto modest vineyard.
The vineyard now spans several tens of hectares, planted on gravel over a clay-limestone subsoil, an ideal terroir for Cabernet Sauvignon, but which here also fully reveals the potential of Merlot.
The vinification and aging are designed to soften the generally firm style of Saint-Estèphe: manual harvesting, long maceration, and aging in new oak barrels for 15 to 18 months produce an opulent wine, often described as voluptuous, silky, sensual, in short, which I would summarize in one word: charming!