Chateau Chasse-Spleen 2010
- Producer Chateau Chasse-Spleen
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Blend
55% Cabernet Sauvignon
40% Merlot
5% Petit Verdot - Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- Appellation Moulis-en-Medoc
- UPC 0 15643 41192 2
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Item# 1665-10
James Suckling
93pt
Wine Enthusiast
91pt
Wine Spectator
90pt
Harvest
Merlot : 4th - 12th october
Cabernet Sauvignon : 12th - 23th october
Petit verdot : 12th - 13th october
Cabernet Sauvignon : 12th - 23th october
Petit verdot : 12th - 13th october
Tasting notes
Dark garnet-red, unclouded and bright.
Nose of fresh roses, cherry, pencil. Freshness. Sapwood with hints of vanilla.
Silky structure around a fine, enveloping and powerful grain.
Cherry and blackberry aromas.
Great persistence
Nose of fresh roses, cherry, pencil. Freshness. Sapwood with hints of vanilla.
Silky structure around a fine, enveloping and powerful grain.
Cherry and blackberry aromas.
Great persistence
Weather
The soil is left impoverished after this 2009 vintage. The harvests barely over, it starts pouring raining heavily. The rain is back in the springtime after a harsh winter. Alas it lingers on the Merlot flower and triggers flower abortion and millerandage over a third of the surface.
The start of the summer is scorching. August is noticeable thanks to the temperature difference between night and day. The rain is still absent; on the other hand, the night great freshness of the nights and the moderately high temperatures of the days tend to limit drying out. However, there was a growing concern regarding this drying out, hence the great relief all over Medoc after a few days of heavy rain in early September. The rain is well timed in reaching us during the harvests, at the time of the Merlot I Cabernet-Sauvignon respite.
The start of the summer is scorching. August is noticeable thanks to the temperature difference between night and day. The rain is still absent; on the other hand, the night great freshness of the nights and the moderately high temperatures of the days tend to limit drying out. However, there was a growing concern regarding this drying out, hence the great relief all over Medoc after a few days of heavy rain in early September. The rain is well timed in reaching us during the harvests, at the time of the Merlot I Cabernet-Sauvignon respite.
