Bordeaux Wine Tours, tasting the Chateau Malartic Lagravière
By Ronald Rens, M. Sc., Wine Master, President of The Bordeaux Wine Experience, the leading Bordeaux Wine Tour company
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After tasting the 2008 red, I understand why the chateau staff bought a record number of bottles for their personal consumption. This wine has a nose that was like an explosion of fruits with hints of licorice, laurel and ripe fruit. In the mouth we found the “flinty” kind of flavor, so typical for the better wines from the Graves region.
The Chateau Malartic Lagravière (red) 2005 proved once again everything I have written before about this outstanding vintage. Great drinking young and years ahead of it. Difficult to keep your hands and your cork screws off them in the cellar, but patience will be rewarded.
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The whites
As opposed to how you would serve wines with a meal, in this appellation you taste first the reds and then the white wines. The Chateau Malartic Lagravière (white) 2008 (just 7 hectare under production, 1000 cases produced), was a success from my point of view. A light golden, straw color. On the nose there was an avalanche of citrus fruit, slightly dominated by grapefruit tones. A rich wine with some “fattiness”and a strong minerality as was to be expected. A slight hint of sweetness in a very pleasant finale.
Over lunch we tasted the excellent white 2005 with the foie gras. With the côte de veau, our host had selected the The Chateau Malartic Lagravière (red) 2002. This wine was acclaimed by the prestigious French wine guide “Le Guide Hachette“, as the best French wine of the year.
I know, I know, enjoying all these meals and tasting these great wines is a tough job, but I do it all for you, my dear readers…
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