Description
A recent (2025) release of our special cuvée red and it's already 'showing' well. Very drinkable. Pour it into a decanter or carafe if you can, but don't worry if that's not possible. It opens up nicely.
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The back label: "This special cuvée was made from 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon from the same block and aged in small French oak barrels. A medium to full bodied red, the 2021 vintage can be enjoyed quite young, though it will develop well in bottle over several years. 13.5% vol."
From Tom Gilbey, @tomgilbeywine on Instagram, also YouTube and TikTok. Tasted Aug 2025:
'The juiciest and plushest of Gav & Ange’s reds. I love this wine for its softness and suppleness. It wraps itself around your tongue and pops plush juicy plums in to parts of your mouth where you’ve forgotten you’ve got tastebuds. This is Merlot magic.'
From Anne Krebiehl MW (Master of Wine), tasted Sept 2025:
“Toast and a touch of vanilla appear first on the nose, wrapping themselves around smooth notes of red berry and cherry. The fresh, medium-bodied palate brings juiciness and is beautifully open. While this has substance and oak-kissed fruit, there is nothing heavy about this. A beautiful all-rounder with lovely freshness and a tender frame of fused tannins. Score 89/100”
From Chris Kissack, aka The Wine Doctor
www.thewinedoctor.com (@chriswinedoctor Instagram/X) Tasted April 2025:
“A nose of sweet and lightly confected blackcurrant, with a minty overlay, reflecting the climatic challenges presented by this vintage. It has a sense of composure on the palate though, with clearly a very sensitive extraction producing a mid-palate of modestly juicy red cherry and blackberry fruits, with a light frame of tannins underneath. This holds up well for a 2021, lighter for sure, but it feels coherent and fresh, with no hard edges, leading to a lightly powdery finish. In the context of the vintage, a success. The alcohol is 13.5%. Score 89/100”
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Château Bauduc Les Trois Hectares 2021
“The juiciest and plushest of Gav & Ange’s reds. I love this wine for its softness and suppleness. It wraps itself around your tongue and pops plush juicy plums in to parts of your mouth where you’ve forgotten you’ve got tastebuds. This is Merlot magic.” Tom Gilbey
Château Bauduc Les Trois Hectares 2021
“Toast and a touch of vanilla appear first on the nose, wrapping themselves around smooth notes of red berry and cherry. The fresh, medium-bodied palate brings juiciness and is beautifully open. While this has substance and oak-kissed fruit, there is nothing heavy about this. A beautiful all-rounder with lovely freshness and a tender frame of fused tannins. Score 89/100” Anne Krebiehl MW
Château Bauduc Les Trois Hectares 2021
“A nose of sweet and lightly confected blackcurrant, with a minty overlay, reflecting the climatic challenges presented by this vintage. It has a sense of composure on the palate though, with clearly a very sensitive extraction producing a mid-palate of modestly juicy red cherry and blackberry fruits, with a light frame of tannins underneath. This holds up well for a 2021, lighter for sure, but it feels coherent and fresh, with no hard edges, leading to a lightly powdery finish. In the context of the vintage, a success. The alcohol is 13.5%. Score 89/100”
Chris Kissack, thewinedoctor.com
Previous Vintages:
Château Bauduc Les Trois Hectares (Bordeaux Supérieur) 2017
"An upmarket cuvée, this blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon has a really charming, intense and focused character to the fruit on the nose, with crushed dark cherry stone and cherry skin, along with a focused, sinewy, sooty rather than plush suggestion which seems right for the vintage, all tinged with notes of hawthorn and acacia. A nicely vigorous palate, with lightly degraded fruit, with leathery elements, tense with moderate texture, with a textural substance in the middle which really entices. It has substance, energy, freshness and a firm finish. Give this a few years and it will drink well. From a 2021 Update. 91/100"
Château Bauduc Les Trois Hectares (Bordeaux Supérieur) 2016
"The blend is, as always, 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon. A lovely evolution on the nose here, showing the benefit of keeping red Bordeaux back a few years, whatever the appellation and status. It offers smoked and toasted fruit, with nuances of liquorice, dried black olive and sweet leathery notes. A beautifully balanced palate, fresh and tense, sinewy in structure but with a really finely poised balance, savoury and full of energy. Really convincing, and giving plenty of pleasure now with a decant, although there is a ripe and tightly grained structure here which suggests there is five or ten years in this yet. Very well done. From a 2021 Update. 92/100"
