2012 Calon Segur
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78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot. Open on the nose with quite refined red fruit and creamy oak. Medium bodied and very fresh on the palate. Elegant and linear in style, with a bit more grip than usual. Pure. FINE+RARE
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James Suckling
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Tasted blind. Deep purplish crimson. Not that complex a nose – yet? Cassis and minerals and very much needs food to counterbalance the marked acid and tannin. Drying finish. But classically built. Good drive. (JR)
Tasted blind. Dark lustrous crimson. Sweet and aromatic. Polished – bit of a lounge lizard. Could do with just a little more vitality but a lot of work has gone into this! Not too big and the oak is very subtle. The group’s favourite wine of the flight. (JR)
The 2012 Calon Ségur is dark, powerful and intense. Smoke, game, tobacco and dark stone fruits open up in a distinctly virile, imposing wine. Quite frankly, what stands out most is how much Calon Ségur has come in the years since French insurer Suravenir Assurances bought the property in July 2012. In 2012 the blend is 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 2% Petit Verdot. The wine spent 19 months in 100% new French oak barrels. In my view Calon Ségur is one of the most dynamic and exciting reemerging properties in Bordeaux today. It will be fascinating to see what the new team headed by Estate Manager Laurent Dufau does here over the coming years.
About the producer
Wedding gift lists traditionally include wine glasses or cutlery, but in 1718, Nicolas-Alexandre de Ségur, the owner of Château Lafite and Château Latour and president of the Bordeaux parliament, received a rather more impressive present: Château Calon.