2015 Deyrem-Valentin
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50% Merlot, 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Petit Verdot, 1% Carmenère. Deep garnet with dark core. Dark fruit, rocky and savoury with some oak spice still showing. Deep, chewy and full-flavoured. A big wine but all in balance for a long future. (JH)
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From Margaux, the 2015 Château Deyrem Valentin is a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot and a splash of Petit Verdot that spent 12 months in barrel. While not up with the top wines of the appellation, it’s certainly a solid wine and offers attractive notes of red plums, crushed flowers, spice-box, and cedar, medium body, an elegant, silky texture and a clean finish. It should keep for a decade or more.
Tasted at the Cru Bourgeois annual tasting, the 2015 Deyrem Valentin has an intense bouquet with powerful black cherry and raspberry fruit, a light graphite and marine influence surfacing with time. The palate is medium-bodied with soft tannin, here a mixture of red and black fruit, quite corpulent in the mouth but with a very pure and lightly spiced finish. This is another impressive wine from this estate that deserves a higher profile. Tasted September 2017.