Starts out slowly, this is well built and muscled, and has no desire to show its hand too quickly. Instead the concentrated yet cooling cassis and blueberry fruits build ever so slowly, the tannins lightly etched at first then tightening their grip.

Couleur sombre, intense, pourpre et belle. Nez très aromatique et subtil, au fruité mûr, avec des nuances complexes. Touche suave et truffée à l'agitation. Minutieux en entrée de bouche, particulièrement aromatique au milieu, accompagné d'un corps fondant et de beaucoup de goût, le vin caresse le palais sur un grain fin, vers une grande longueur à la trame distinguée. C'est très bon.

A beautiful core of ripe fruit in the center palate with deep, dark-chocolate undertones. It’s full-bodied with layers of fruit and ripe tannins. Flavorful finish.

Une extraction très douce procure au vin beaucoup de finesse, la minéralité des calcaires du plateau lui confère son élégance. Ce saint-émilion profond dévoile ici un profil aérien, avec un fruit gorgé de sève et un tanin crayeux.

There's ample dark cherry, plum and boysenberry compote flavors in this red, along with a rare hint of brightness for the vintage. Licorice root and applewood accents fill in through the finish, while an underlying chalky minerality gives this additional form as well. Very solid. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2025 through 2038.

Lots of purple fruit with white pepper and crushed stones in the nose. It’s full-bodied, yet tight and poised with a very chalky and salty undertone to the purple fruit. Flavorful finish. Linear and long. Try after 2026.

Attractive aromas of wild berries, pencil shavings, vine smoke, black truffle and violets introduce the 2019 Clos Fourtet, a medium to full-bodied, deep and seamless wine with a concentrated core of fruit, beautifully refined tannins and lively acids, concluding with a long, saline finish. Elegant and complete, this is a brilliant wine from this 19-hectare vineyard situated on the limestone plateau of Saint-Émilion, just outside the village, which has been on a qualitative roll since the 2001 vintage.