"This great Bordeaux wine has a ruby-red color with black highlights, expressing notes of wood and very ripe black berries. The supple attack is quickly followed by a powerful, concentrated body". (Maison de Luze)
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Eye
Dark ruby colour
Nose
Elegant, fresh, fruity bouquet with gentle hints of spice
Mouth
Full and silky, with crisp tannins and a fresh, persistent finish of small black berries and a hint of vanilla.
Serve
At 16-18°C
Open
1 hour before
Drink from
2022
Drink before
2032
Food and wine pairing
Enjoy with roast turkey, Rossini tournedos with porcini mushrooms or chocolate tart.
Bettane & Desseauve
Domaine noté (guide 2015) Sélectionné (An estate or house that has won us over with one or more wines from its production, without us being able to give a general opinion on the style of the entire range)
About the domain :
Pomerol abounds in little-known treasures which, at their best, easily rival the wines of its most prestigious châteaux. Just a stone's throw from l'Évangile, the Maillet sector slopes gently down to the small Barbane stream that separates Pomerol from Néac, and boasts a number of charming artisan crus, such as Franc-Maillet. The Arpin family applies good peasant viticultural principles here, and rightly isolates a very old Merlot vine on fairly clayey soil. Their wines do not pale in comparison with those of Petrus or Trotanoy in great vintages, and Jean-Luc Thunevin makes no mistake in offering them in his Saint-Émilion boutiques.
Guide Hachette des vins
Rated domain (2018 guide) Awarded wines (The wines of this producer are regularly awarded by the guide)
About the domain :
On his return from the Great War, Jean-Baptiste Arpin bought 1 ha in Pomerol, in the Maillet sector. Today, his grandsons and great-grandsons Gérard and Gaël farm 38 ha in Pomerol, Saint-Emilion, Montagne and Lalande, regularly producing excellent wines.
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Domaine noté (guide 2005) Sélectionné (We remind you that this guide is a prize list and as such, all the estates that appear in it, even without a star, represent, in our eyes, the excellence of French production).
About the domain :
Located in the Maillet district, from which Château Franc-Maillet takes its name, Franc-Maillet has been owned by the Arpin family for almost a century. Over the past half-decade, the vineyard has made steady progress, with a prestige cuvée called Jean-Baptiste, which is full-bodied and elegant. The wines: in both cuvées of Château Franc-Maillet, recent vintages show a steady and very interesting progression. The 2000s are deep, fleshy, full-bodied wines with very ripe, non-dry tannins. The Cuvée Jean-Baptiste is remarkably intense. Vieux Château Gachet, the lalande-de-pomerol is also tasty and fine in 2000.