- Colour Red
- Producer Jean Philippe Janoueix Domaines
- Region Bordeaux Supérieur
- Grape Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot
- Case size 6x150cl
- Available Now
2009 - Ch Croix Mouton Bordeaux - 6x150cl
- Colour Red
- Producer Jean Philippe Janoueix Domaines
- Region Bordeaux Supérieur
- Grape Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot
- Case size 6x150cl
- Available Now
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Robert Parker, December 2011, Score: 90
A big-time sleeper in this vintage, this dense purple wine from Jean-Philippe Janoueix over-delivers for its humble pedigree. A blend of 86% Merlot and the rest mostly Cabernet Franc, it is a surprisingly big wine (over 14% alcohol) with notes of smoky barbecue, kirsch, blackberries, coffee and cassis. Luscious tannins, low acidity and a textured, multi-dimensional mouthfeel make for an impressive Bordeaux Superieur. Drink it over the next 3-5 years. 90/100. Date 2012-2017.
Region
Bordeaux Supérieur
When the Romans first planted a few vines on the limestone outcrops of St Emilion in the early years of the first century, and tasted what was, by all accounts, rather thin, bitter wine, they can hardly have imagined that the region's greatest red wines would become the most sought afterfine wines in the world. From the days in the seventeenth century when the then owners of Ch Haut Brion, the de Pontac family, became the first to export to the UK, selling their wine in their own tavern, the Pontac's Head, red Bordeaux or claret has been the Englishman's favourite. The wines of the 1855 Classification are merely the tip of the iceberg. Bordeaux Supérieur is a widely used appellation in Bordeaux and refers to 10,000ha under vine, predominately of Merlot grape although some white and sweet wines can be found. These wines are entitled to a minimum permitted alcoholic strength of 10.5% which is half a percent higher than Bordeaux AC.