2020 Château de Pressac
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The 2020 Château De Pressac showed beautifully, with terrific purity in its spicy dark fruits, spice, chocolate, and earthy nuances. Medium to full-bodied and concentrated, with ripe tannins, it's another balanced, layered, incredibly impressive Saint-Emilion that does everything right. It's going to benefit from short-term cellaring and keep for two decades, if not longer. The blend is 79% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Carmenère and Malbec.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Alistair Cooper MW, jancisrobinson.com
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The 2020 Château de Pressac has an attractive nose with blackberry, briary and undergrowth scents, a touch of mineralité and is nicely focused with well-integrated oak. The palate is balanced with supple tannins, fleshy and pliant, silky smooth with a plush and seductive, candied finish. Lovely.
The 2020 de Pressac is a wine of real charm and seduction. Bright floral and citrus notes drive a core of sweet red cherry fruit. Chalk, mint, white pepper, smoke and dried herbs lend notable aromatic complexity. As always, the blend includes Cabernet Franc plus drops of Malbec and Carménère, which lends quite a bit of nuance. The 2020 is an especially elegant Pressac. In my view, Pressac remains one of the most criminally underrated wines in all of Saint-Émilion. On the other hand, that makes it a screaming value.
Full bottle 1,365 g. Certified HVE. Well-balanced and gracefully restrained. A lovely combination of tart redcurrants and velvety dark blackcurrant bringing edge and definition to the richness. A light hint of blackcurrant bud and tobacco leaf. Elegant tannins. Everything in place with a long, juicy finish.