Description
The latest release of our special cuvée red, Les Trois Hectares rouge, from the gloriously sunny and ripe 2022 vintage. 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.
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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
- Expert opinion
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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
