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Chateau Chasse-Spleen2010

RED WINE

PUBLIC
April 2025
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Chateau Chasse-Spleen label
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  • Producer Chateau Chasse-Spleen
  • Blend 55% Cabernet Sauvignon
    40% Merlot
    5% Petit Verdot
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Moulis-en-Medoc
  • UPC 0 15643 41192 2

Reviews

James Suckling 93

A wine with wonderfully fresh and perfumed aromas with crushed flowers and berries. Full body, with super integrated tannins and a silky textured finish. This is refined and very pretty. Better than 2009. Drink or hold.

by JS, James Suckling , 2013

Wine Enthusiast 91

All structure and tannin over the austere black fruits. The wine at this stage is powered by its texture rather than the fruit.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2011

Wine Spectator 90

Very supple and refined, with a crumpled velvet feel to the smoldering bay, tobacco and mulled spice hints surrounding the core of steeped plum and blackberry fruit. Flashes of cedar and sandalwood hang through the fine-grained finish. Rustic and lovely.

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2013

Technical Details

Harvest

Merlot : 4th - 12th 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

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.