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Chateau Calon Segur

Chateau Calon Segur 3eme Cru Classe Saint-Estephe

Bordeaux

Saint-Estephe

Precise and confident texture to this wine, has higher levels of both Cabernets in 2023 than in 2022, having reached exceptional maturity, and personally I feel that have recaptured the heart and spirit of Calon. Skilfully made, love the violet peony savoury character, it's sappy and has liqourice root and squid ink salinity, along with tons of cassis and cigar box. The blend for this was built on Cabernet, and you can feel it. My favourite Calon since the 2020 vintage, hands down. 100% new oak, director Vincent Millet.

Inside Bordeaux

A blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2023 Calon Segur has a deep garnet-purple color. After a swirl or two, notes of fresh blackcurrants, juicy blackberries, and redcurrant jelly leap from the glass, followed by hints of rose oil, cumin seed, and mint tea. The medium to full-bodied palate is bursting with bold red and black fruit flavors, supported by fine-grained tannins, finishing long and spicy. Nicely done!

by Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW

Beautiful red ruby expression. A slimmer more finessed expression of Calon than in recent years, that gives it less estate signature than some, but this has beautiful cassis bud, rose petals,  peony, iris, cocoa bean and graphite. Subtle but with real charm. 3.60 pH. 45 hl/ha. 100% new oak. Vincent Millet director, Harvest 23 September to 9 October. 

This is powerful, underlining how much last year's more softly sculpted wine was a departure from recent vintages of Calon, and back in my mind to the complicated 2018 vintage, where it was overly marked by the heat of the vintage. This is full on concentrated fruit, with strong tannins that build through the palate. Plenty of complexity with black truffles, cassis, olive paste, sandalwood and fresh mint on the finish, along with cloves and cinnammon spice. 3.8ph, 100% new oak, 26hl/h yields. 53% Grand Vin, higher than usual. Vincent Millet technical director. Harvest September 6 to 27.

Maintains the clarity and precision that it showed En Primeur, with finely cut tannins, cassis fruits and bitter black chocolate. Savoury and finessed, grilled sandalwood and cocoa bean. Good stuff, understated but refined. Harvest September 28 to October 14, 100% new oak, 43% 1st wine, 36hl/h yield. Old school finesse, not exuberance. Director Vincent Millet.

2020 fortsetter å imponere også dette slottet. Dyp purpur farge med en enorm delikat og kompleks duft av mørke bær, plomme, vanilje, lakris, røyk etc. En vidunderlig smaks intensitet med laang balansert ettersmak selv om tannin strukturen er fremtredende.
Dette er super flott og blir nok vidunderlig om 5-25 år🥰

WSET Diploma

Rich and silky in texture, full of ripe brambled fruits and powerfully concentrated tannins. Touch of reduction on the first nose that needs time to clear, lots to enjoy and it unquestionably makes an impression. Plenty of signature St Estèphe punch. Tasted twice. 40hl/ha yield, 100% new oak. Eric Boissenot consultant, Vincent Millet CEO and technical director.

The 2018 Calon Segur is deep garnet-purple in color. It has a powerful nose of crème de cassis, boysenberry preserves, and mocha, with an undercurrent of cedar, tar, and star anise. Full-bodied, rich and decadent it the mouth, it has a solid frame of ripe, grainy tannins and just enough freshness, finishing long and earthy. Needs five more years, at least, but is shping up to be a real head-turner.

Pure liquid velvet, sings of restrained elegance. Inky plum in colour, full intensity, with decades ahead of it, signature St Estèphe power and character. Damson, black cherry, olive tapenade, liquorice, slate, earth, closing in on bitter almond and dark chocolate on the finish. Harvest 27 September to 16 October. Strongly suggest that you leave this open for a good few hours before tasting if going anywhere near it soon (we had it in a carafe for four hours before serving). 100% new oak, with just 35% of production in the grand vin because so much replanting had been done over the previous decade.

Captures the texture and power of great St Estèphe, with aromatic fragrant spice, blueberry and cassis fruit, and has plenty of joy to deliver. Great quality at the ten year point, just about ready to drink at this point but decades ahead. Crushed roses on the finish, lighter framed than the 2016 but this is a lovely wine. 100% new oak for ageing. Vincent Millet director.

Blackberry and cassis fruits, liquorice root, salted carramel, feels very much at the start of its drinking window, tannins beginning to smooth out, corners softened, tobacco notes rising from mid palate onwards. This is enjoyable and accomplished, with grip and character. 100% new oak. Two years after it had been sold by the Gasqueton family to Suravenir Insurance.

youthful, dark purple, pure nose of dark berries, cassis, discreet oak, fine spices, fresh palate with medium weight bit flavour intense and long finish.

Sommelier

The 2012 Calon Segur is medium to deep garnet colored. It is jumping with vibrant notes of Morello cherries, plum preserves, and cassis plus wafts of fallen leaves, dried herbs, and crushed rocks. The medium-bodied palate is bright, refreshing, and breezy with grainy tannins to support and a lifted finish.

The Denise Gasqueton years, and this is very much old school and very much delicious. Bursting with black chocolate, charcoal, crayon, campfire, cassis, bilberries, rose buds, bay leaf. This is pure Calon and you just want to pour yourself inside it. 100% new oak.

Plum colour, still intense right through to the core of the wine, this is just a near-perfect St Estèphe, concentrated yet finessed, with balance, less muscular than you would find in most vintages of Calon today, still with depth but also nuance, full of pleasure and joy, cocoa bean, cigar box, blackcurrant, smoked earth, oyster shell finish. Owned by Denise Gasqueton at the time, and makes me a little nostalgic for the old school charms of this era at Calon.

Bordeaux smaking.
Velbalansert, rund med fin modenhet.

Amatør

Mye som stemmer i denne Bordeuaxen; kjølig, ren, rød kirsebærfrukt, et noe utviklet preg, hovedsakelig kommer det frem i form av integrerte tanniner og balanse. Ørlite «grå» frukt trekker ned fra det som nesten er en spektakulær vin. En perfekt match til medium rarereinsdyr med en fruktig saus. 

Tranebær, solbær, lær, jordlig, røyk, floral, sigar, ceder, bjørnebær, parfyme og blåbær.

Expert

Magnum: korrekt klassisk bdx - mørk frukt, jordlig, syrefrisk og balansert - potent tanninstruktur som vil ha godt av noen år til i kjelleren (93+)

At a lovely moment to drink, capturing the vibrant core of St Estèphe black fruits, muscular tannins, with fresh mint-leaf and eucalypytus acidities just as they tip towards tertiary. This is ageing slowly but surely, with the old school charm of Calon Ségur at this period, a touch of iron filings alongside crème caramel, black truffle, smoked earth and raspberry puree, all leisurely unfolding and stretching out the experience. Rebottled ten years ago (at the estate, where it has never left), opened and carafed four hours before serving.

Transparent ruby with a brown rim. Delicate nose with violets, leather, herbs, sweet sour cherries, licorice, pencil shavings, dates and figs. Fresh acidity. Playful. Spice, leather, tobacco and minerals. Polished smooth tannins. Very long.

This was a challenging vintage for reds (great for Sauternes if you were wondering), but there is still plenty of life and lift in this lovely bottle. Cigar box, soft raspberries, old books, tobacco, classic old claret, you can't help but feel just how few places in the world can deliver this sense of unhurried, languid pleasure in a 56 year old wine.

A beautiful wine, that tasted stunningly fresh, with blackberry, loganberry and crushed raspberry fruits, still deep in colour with fine tannins holding them in place. Campfire, tobacco, undergrowth and saffron come in waves as the palate unwinds, this is delicious, a wine that you miss as soon as it is finished. Opened and stood for four hours before being served, then carafed for 30 minutes. This bottle has never been recorked, but remained in the same spot in the Calon cellars since bottling in 1968.

Soft raspberry in colour, gentle dusky pink around the edges, this is delicate and fragrant, if served blind you might think 1959 rather than the more muscular 1961, definitely at the stage where even Cabernet Sauvignon takes on the personality of Pinot Noir with its finely boned tannins and floral fragrance, with tobacco, soot and crushed roses. Lives up to the breathless expectations that go along with any opening of a classified 1961, although I wouldn't bet on it lasting as long from here as either the Mouton or the Latour. Half bottle. Stored in an underground cellar in the Netherlands, kept in OWC until a recent auction and transported to Hong Kong. Half bottle.

Incredibly young, to the point that some of the (experienced) tasters around the table thought it was younger than the 1966 - I guessed it to be late 1950s, early 1960s. The colour remains deep and powerful, with heady scents of crushed roses and mandarin rind. It is only on the palate that you feel the tobacco, leather, white truffle and bare bones tannins of an older wine, but even so it is breathing beauty, with the remembrance of atumnal fruit that gently builds in density through the palate. An extraordinary wine - that we had out of magnum. Even more incredibly, it had never been recorked, but had remained in the exact same spot in the Calon cellars since it was first bottled in 1928. How long will it last? Hard to say - clearly it has already shown any 'drink to' date to be meaningless, and seems determined to keep defying gravity. Opened five hours before service (but I would suggest less if you are having from bottle). The exact blend is unknown, but at the time plantings of Cabernet Sauvignon in the vineyard were extremely high.

Category	Red wine
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Producer	Chateau Calon Segur
Vintages	2023
Country	France, Bordeaux, Saint-Estephe
Bottle	75 cl

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