2009 La Serre Bordeaux Red

2009 La Serre

93 JS

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Enticing aromas of dark berries, with sandalwood. Full body, with round and velvety tannins and a ripe fruit aftertaste. Juicy and delicious. Best La Serre in years. Best in 2017. James Suckling

James Suckling | 93 JS

Enticing aromas of dark berries, with sandalwood. Full body, with round and velvety tannins and a ripe fruit aftertaste. Juicy and delicious. Best La Serre in years. Best in 2017.

James Suckling | 93 JS

Pretty notes of rose and vanilla accent ripe, pure flavors of black cherry, raspberry and currant in this polished red. Bright acidity carries the smooth texture, with well-integrated tannins giving this balance. Drink now through 2020. 1,850 cases made.

Wine Spectator | 92 WS

There is wood here, the fruit is fresh, with a lively acidity on top of the core of tannin. A bright, fresh, blackcurrant wine.

Wine Enthusiast | 91 WE

The 2009 La Serre is a sleeper of the vintage and the best wine I have ever tasted from this property, which sits on pure limestone soils. Amazingly supple and silky, this blend of 90% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc displays a big, almost Southern Rhone-like nose of kirsch liqueur, licorice and tobacco leaf, while some powdered minerals clearly evoke the limestone terroir to its advantage. Medium to full-bodied, plump and opulent, this is a wine to drink in its first decade of life, although I suspect it will last longer.

Robert Parker | 90 RP

(Château La Serre) This property in St. Émilion was new to me, as I had never before tasted it until I worked my way through the lineup of wines represented and/or owned by the Moueix family at their offices in Libourne. The vineyard is well-situated, just northeast of the town of St. Émilion near Trottevieille and Clos des Jacobins. The 2009 is really very strong, as it offers up an excellent nose of black cherries, a touch of blood orange, raw cocoa, lovely soil tones, a touch of nutskin, tobacco leaf and a refined base of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very suave, with impressively tangy acids (very rare in ’09), lovely mid-palate depth and a long, complex and ripely tannic finish. An excellent wine. (Drink between 2018-2050)

John Gilman | 90-92 JG

Type of Wine	Bordeaux Red : Picture in your mind a combination of cedar, lead pencil, blackcurrant, plum and mineral aromatics, and texture that caresses your palate like a playful lover. The experience is thrilling from the first whiff to the final seconds of a tannic, generous finish - that is what you'll get from a Bordeaux Red
Varietal	Bordeaux Blend
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