A Cabernet Sauvignon dominant blend, the wines are renowned for their wonderful fragrance but also their deep, cassis-driven fruit. Blackcurrant and plum character mingles with nuances of chocolate and anise.
Reviews:
- Wine Spectator: Beautiful aromas of mole, raspberries and flowers, follow through to a full body, with firm tannins and a juicy finish. Minerals and flowers. Already delicious and attractive.
- Wine Advocate: The all-time greatest wine I have ever tasted from Saint-Pierre, this estate, the smallest of the grand cru classes of St.-Julien, has an opaque purple color and a spectacular nose of subtle charcoal, creme de cassis, blackberry, and incense. Full-bodied, with striking intensity and flamboyantly rich, exuberant flavors bursting with extract, the St. Pierre has no hard edges, but rather massive, incredibly well-endowed blockbuster style, which should prove to be monumental.
Producer Information
Château Saint-Pierre is a wine estate in the Saint-Julien appellation in Bordeaux’s northern Médoc wine region, on the so-called Left Bank of the Gironde estuary. The estate is was classified as a Fourth Growth in the 1855 classification of the Médoc and Graves. The wine of the estate is dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon in-line with the cuvées of other Left Bank producers. The estate is named for Baron de Saint-Pierre, who owned the château in the late 18th Century, and built the reputation that would earn it the status of a classed growth. Archives in the region, however, date the establishment of the estate even earlier as a farm property under the name Serançon, with vineyards planted at least by 1693. During the 19th Century, the estate was divided in two, becoming Château Saint-Pierre-Bontemps and Château Saint-Pierre-Sevaistre. New ownership brought the two back together as Château Saint-Pierre, but several key parcels of the vineyards had been sold. One of the buyers was producer Henri Martin, who incorporated the bought vine parcels into his own Saint-Julien estate, Château Gloria. Martin eventually bought the entire Saint-Pierre estate in 1982, and it remains one of several Bordeaux wineries owned by Domaines Henri Martin.
