2020 Talbot (St-Julien)

Origin
St-Julien, Medoc, Bordeaux FRANCE
Colour
red
Wine Style
dry
Dominant Grape
Cabernet Sauvignon
Closure Style
cork
Maturity
young
Bottle Size
75cl
Case Quantity
6
Alcohol
13%
Wine Score
90 points, Jane Anson, decanter.com, May 2021
92-94 points, Neal Martin, vinous.com, May 2021
90-92 points, Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, robertparker.com, May 2021
17 points, Jancis Robinson MW, jancisrobinson.com, May 2021
90-91 points, Michael Schuster, W

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2020 Talbot (St-Julien)

Media Reviews

Jane Anson

Enjoyable with a feeling of substance to the blackberry and hawthorn hedgerow fruits, gentle woodsmoke notes as it opens. Appealing and easy to enjoy. 90 points

Neal Martin

The 2020 Talbot has a fragrant nose with black cherries, bilberry, wild mint and chalk, quite harmonious and gaining intensity in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with a sweet, almost candied opening, predominantly red berry fruit laced with mint and orange zest, and a liberal sprinkling of black pepper. I admire the way this Talbot builds so that it finishes with a flourish. This may well land at the top of my banded score. 92-94 points

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW

Deep purple-black colored, the 2020 Talbot storms out of the glass with powerful blackcurrants, raspberry leaves and baked plums scents, followed by suggestions of dried Mediterranean herbs, tobacco leaf and graphite. The medium-bodied palate delivers lovely freshness and an approachable chewiness, nicely framing the herb-laced black fruits, finishing savory. 90-92 points

Jancis Robinson MW

Dark crimson. Savoury, saline nose. Luscious palate entry with ripe fruit that almost smothers the tannin. A very good effort from Talbot with velvety tannins in profusion and some winning perfume too. This is doing well under ex-Conseillante Jean-Michel Laporte. 17 points

Michael Schuster

Dense, fresh black-fruit and gravel impressions to smell; medium-full, fresh to crisp in acidity, very fine in firm tannin, classic, elegant, St-Julien balance; crisply ripe flavor, gently fleshy-cored, defined by a brisk acidity, and with just a touch of austerity, but fine, close-grained, quite complex, and with good length. Very good rather than grande année quality and character, just not the “ease” of, for example, the 2018 or 2019 here. Will certainly need time—a decade at least, I would say. Drink 2030–45+. 90–91 points

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