France

Cabernet Sauvignon

Merlot

Cabernet Franc

Petit Verdot

Chateau Calon Segur

Chateau Calon Segur 3eme Cru Classe Saint-Estephe

Bordeaux

Saint-Estephe

Deep garnet-purple colored. It's a little shy to start off, needing some swirling to bring out notes of black raspberries and red cherries, followed by wafts of cassis, mint tea, and milk chocolate with a hint of pencil lead. The light to medium-bodied palate delivers very good tension and bright, red berry flavors with savory sparks and fine-grained tannins, finishing with a refreshing lift.

by Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW

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!

The 2022 Calon Segur is composed of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. Deep garnet-purple in color, it erupts from the glass with powerful scents of creme de cassis, blackberry preserves, and fruitcake, leading to touches of wild sage, smoked meats, Chinese five spice, and camphor with a waft of graphite. The full-bodied palate is super concentrated and hedonic, delivering impactful black and blue fruit preserves layers with a velvety texture and lively backbone, finishing with long lingering exotic spice notes. It's big, sure, but it is also very bright and energetic. The alcohol is 15% and the pH 3.8.

The 2021 Calon Segur has a deep garnet-purple color. It starts off a bit broody with notes of cedar chest, wild sage, and damp soil, leading to a core of menthol, stewed blackcurrants, and prunes, with a touch of balsamic. The medium-bodied palate is soft and spicy, delivering a good core of berry preserves flavors with exotic spices accents, finishing on a stewed tea note.

Even visually this stands apart with its inky, glass-staining ruby colour. Rich and powerful but restrained, this is a brilliant Calon Ségur, more old school than the past few vintages in that there is tight cassis, eucalyptus and mint leaf restraint, but still utterly luscious black cherry and damson fruits, concentrated, supple and chiselled tannins with a touch of crème de cassis and incense. Exceptionally impressive. 47% of overall production, 33hl/h yield, 100% new oak, 3.85ph. Vincent Millet director as well as technical director.

Inside Bordeaux

Dyp rød farge. 120 flasker tilgjengelig i Norge. Resmak vinen.

Sommelier

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.

The 2013 Calon Segur is medium garnet in color, with a touch of brick. It has quite an oaky nose to begin, offering glimpses at underlying notes of dried cherries, fruitcake, and rosemary, with a touch of iron ore. The medium-bodied palate is dominated by oak and herbal flavors, with a firm texture and a short finish.

Dark berries, mineral and floral notes, dense structure, plenty of dark fruit, fine spice, tobacco, very long with plenty of fine tannin, promising!

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.

Critic Average Rating

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

Helt magisk. Merkant røyk smak meget kraftig. Til dels syrlig ettersmak. Tør ettersmak. 

Amatør

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.

2024	No priceNot available	Excellent
2023	No priceNot available	Extraordinary
2022	No priceNot available	Outstanding
2021	kr 1 650.00Available	Outstanding
2020	kr 1 387.10Not available	Extraordinary

Category	Red wine
Vinmonopolet no.
Producer	Chateau Calon Segur
Vintages	1990
Country	France, Bordeaux, Saint-Estephe
Bottle	75 cl

Alcohol	13 %
Acid	5,2 %
Sugar	< 3 g/l

Packaging	Glass
Cork type
Selection	Tilleggsutvalget
Wholesaler	Palmer Wine AS
Carrier	Cuveco AS