Description
New release, December 2025.
Les Trois Hectares rouge from the gloriously sunny and ripe 2022 vintage is in stock in London for the first time this week (17th Dec). We thought this deep, rich red needed a bit more time but we’ve had a chance to try some at home with friends and it’s drinking really well now after a couple of years in bottle. We think it's best decanted - even for a few minutes to allow the tannins to soften - but it's not essential.
The back label: "This delicious 'special cuvée' was made from 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon from the same block and aged in small French oak barrels. A fairly full bodied red, it's ripe and supple enough to drink young or it will develop well in bottle over many years. 13.5% vol."
“A nose of sweet and delicately roasted fruits speak of the dry warmth of the vintage, here laced with a little tobacco… plenty of juicy texture, and some ripe and nicely integrated powdery tannins. With time it reveals a little complexity, black olive, crushed mineral, black peppercorn, while it maintains a rather juicy style framed by the energy of the 2022 vintage… The alcohol is 13.5%. 91/100”
Chris Kissack - thewinedoctor.com
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- Expert opinion
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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"
