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2009 Bouscat Cuvee La Gargone Bordeaux Blend
Bordeaux Blend: 750ml
points awarded:
ST 92 WA 93Geoffrey Binder, JJ Buckley, March 2012
Opaque purple core with a brighter fuchsia rim. Melted licorice, incense, and dark chocolate combine with bright red fruit and aromas of purple flowers on the nose. Medium to full bodied, with an appealing creamy texture, this offers loads of red fruit, along with spiced plum and black fruit flavors, before finishing with a touch of baking chocolate. This is drinking well now, but has ample weight and bright acidity to see it through another 3-5 years.
93 points,
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, February 2012
The remarkable 2009 Bouscat La Gargone, which is even better from bottle than it was from barrel, is a blend of 60% Merlot, 20% Malbec, 18% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon. Consultant Claude Gros certainly got things right, as this tips the scales at a California-like 15.9% natural alcohol. An absolutely sensational nose of white chocolate intermixed with blackberry jam, licorice, incense and white flowers soars from the glass of this opaque, full-bodied, sensationally concentrated wine that has no hard edges. Drink it over the next 3-4 years.
This is a major over-achieving, 20-acre, south-facing hillside vineyard just in the shadow of Fronsac.
92 points,
Stephen Tanzer's IWC, July 2012
(15% alcohol on the label): Full ruby-red. Rich, ripe aromas of blackberry liqueur, black raspberry, cassis and chocolate. Thick and sweet but with shape and energy too. Dense dark berry flavors are complicated by bitter chocolate and mint. Finishes with broad, horizontal tannins that saturate the entire palate. Remarkably round, seamless and satisfying wine with amazing length for a Bordeaux Superieur. And boasts more energy than most California cabernets at the same octane level.
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