Retour Château Beau Soleil - Pomerol - Rouge - 2018
COUNTRY/REGION: Bordeaux
DESIGNATION: AOP Pomerol
COLOR: Red
VINTAGE: 2018
GRAPE VARIETY: 95% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc.
ALCOHOL: 14 vol.
CONTENT: 75 cl
The tasting
Color Intense red with black and carmine highlights.
Nose Abundance of red and black fruits mixed with liquorice wood and fine toasted notes.
Palate Delicious and rich, wine delivers a fresh, harmonious and balanced palate.
The sommelier's advice
Temperature Serve between 16 and 18°C.
Food Roasted pigeon with porcini mushrooms, rack of lamb, beef Wellington.
Cellar ageing From now until 2030
The estate and the wine
The estate and the wine A confidential address in Pomerol, Château Beau Soleil sculpts marvelous deep and intense wines that draw their unequaled typicity from these ferruginous gravel soils. Managed by Thierry Rustmann, who is also in charge of Châteaux Talbot and Sénéjac, this first-rate cru delivers all the class of this wonderful appellation on 3.5 hectares.
Wine The 2018 Red Pomerol Chateau Beau Soleil displays a finely luxurious profile around aromas of licorice and pleasantly toasted notes. The aromatic palette remains fresh and is part of a high class, tasty, rich and very balanced palate, with ripe, fresh and harmonious flavors of fruit. Here is a Merlot that ideally reflects the blend of the greatest terroir of Pomerol. To be enjoyed until 2030. Rated 93/100 by our Selection Committee.
Vinification Hand harvested, vatting for 27 days in thermo-regulated stainless steel vats, 40% of the harvest is aged in new barrels, and the remaining 60% in one-wine barrels.
AWARDS
AWARDS Wine rated 16,5/20 by our Selection Committee !