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2016 Ormes de Pez, St-Estèphe

2016 Ormes de Pez, St-Estèphe

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$69.99

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Jane Anson

Reviewed October 2022
A brilliant St Estèphe value in a vintage where you can almost buy blind in this appellation. Tight tannins even after a few hours of opening in bottle (not decanting), this has lashings of bitter dark chocolate, cocoa beans, espresso, cinammon shavings, mandarin peel and damson fruits, this has many years ahead of it. Owned by the Cazes family of Lynch Bages, 45% new oak. On deep gravel soils, picked by hand between September 27 and October 11, on its second year of optical sorting at this point.

Professional Reviews

94

James Suckling

Review Date: 02/2019
The dark berries, sandalwood and cedar aromas are certainly memorable. Full-bodied, dense and rich in the center palate with ripe, polished tannins and a long, flavorful finish. Dense and powerful.

93

Decanter

Review Date: 04/2017
The Cazes family's property in St-Estèphe, which for a drinking wine is going to be hard to beat this year. Juicy and utterly delicious, it has freshness and a great menthol character with finely grained tannins. It manages to deliver the Médoc signature without falling over itself. Mostly Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon with a dash of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, planted on clay-limestone and gravels, aged in 45% new oak. 3.69pH. (JA)

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Wine Spectator

Review Date: 04/2017
This sports a juicy core of damson plum and red currant fruit, backed by a strong mineral edge that lends ample cut and drive to the finish. Shows pleasant austerity, with the structure to age. (JM)

Notes

92 points Antonio Galloni for Vinous: "The 2016 Ormes de Pez is a very expressive wine. Iron, smoke, savory herbs, licorice, pomegranate and blood orange all give the 2016 a distinctly feral, savory quality to play off the bright red toned fruit. Supple and pliant in the glass, with lovely complexity, the 2016 is wonderfully complex and nuanced. This pleasantly rustic, hearty Saint-Estèphe will drink well upon release." (01/2019) Owned by the Cazes family since 1940, this Saint-Estèphe estate shares its ownership with Château Lynch-Bages in Pauillac. The name Ormes de Pez recalls the elm trees that once grew here.

Details

TypeRed Wine
VarietalCabernet Sauvignon and Blends
OriginSaint Estephe, Bordeaux, France
Bottle Size750 mL
SKU1440108