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CHATEAU DU CARTILLON HAUT MEDOC
This week I will finish up my reports on the 2018 Cru Bourgeois wines with two more tasting reports, looking first at 55 Cru Bourgeois wines in the Haut-Médoc appellation, and then a further 62 wines with the Médoc appellation. Combined with the tasting notes I published last week that makes for 150 wines reviewed (it would have been 151, but for one wine which had succumbed to cork taint). So it seems only right to open week two with another wine that stood out for me during the tastings.
While the Haut-Médoc contingent included a number of familiar names, from the likes of Château Belle-Vue, Château Cambon-la-Pelouse and Château du Retout, all of which were looking good, I was keeping an eye out for wines which impressed me but which hailed from less familiar châteaux. Last week’s wine, the 2018 Château Devise d’Ardilley, its heady blend rich in Petit Verdot, was a prime example. This week’s wine also fits the description; it is from a property I only encountered for the first time last year, during the 2019 Bordeaux primeurs, one of the many samples that turned up on my doorstep back in May 2020. The 2019 vintage seemed to have pretty good potential (it will be good to revisit it one day), and the 2018 vintage, now in bottle, seems just as impressive.
