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1997 Clos de l'Oratoire Bordeaux Blend

Bordeaux Blend: 750ml

$39.99

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89 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, April 2000

This opaque ruby/purple-colored wine offers copious quantities of jammy black cherries and lavish, smoky new oak. Fat, fleshy, and rich, with sweet tannin, medium to full body, and gorgeous concentration and fruit, it can be drunk now, but promises to be even better with 2-3 more years of bottle age. It will last for 12+ years.


88 -90 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, May 1998

Opaque black-ruby color! Wild, vibrant aromas of black cherry, violet, smoke and leather. Very sweet and very intensely flavored for the vintage. Not quite as fleshy as the '96 but fresh, firm and very persistent on the aftertaste. Port-like notes of slightly medicinal black cherry and chocolate on the finish. Very impressive.


89 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, April 2000

This opaque ruby/purple-colored wine offers copious quantities of jammy black cherries and lavish, smoky new oak. Fat, fleshy, and rich, with sweet tannin, medium to full body, and gorgeous concentration and fruit, it can be drunk now, but promises to be even better with 2-3 more years of bottle age. It will last for 12+ years.


88 -90 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, May 1998

Opaque black-ruby color! Wild, vibrant aromas of black cherry, violet, smoke and leather. Very sweet and very intensely flavored for the vintage. Not quite as fleshy as the '96 but fresh, firm and very persistent on the aftertaste. Port-like notes of slightly medicinal black cherry and chocolate on the finish. Very impressive.


About Winery

Clos de l'Oratoire was acquired by Comte de Neipperg in 1991 and he has resurrected this property, turning it into one of the finest in St-Emilion. At Clos de l'Oratoire many traditional vineyard practices are used to keep production down, thus concentrating flavour in the wine. Grass is left to grow between the vine rows and pruning is quite severe. The vines are thinned out to keep yields down and to create the ideal natural equilibrium. Fertilizer is mostly organic, and used sparingly. The grapes are hand picked and any poor-quality ones are immediately sorted out and eliminated in the vineyard. The vintage takes place as late as possible to obtain maximum ripeness. Clos de l'Oratoire is barrel-aged for an average of 13 to 22 months (between 50 and 70% new barrels). The Merlot-dominated wines have deep colour and are redolent of dark, ripe berry fruits, with fine texture and structure.

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