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Inside Bordeaux
Jane Anson
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12 Jan 22
Fruit forward, black cherry and cassis fruits, bristling tannins, and fairly high acidities. This is good quality, and wants to be taken seriously. Plenty of St Estèphe character, this is an excellent wine from Vignobles Dourthe. 37% new oak, harvest September 23 to October 9.
Drinking Date: 2024 - 2040
90
The Wine Independent
Lisa Perrotti-Brown
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01 May 23
Le Boscq 2019 is medium to deep garnet-purple in color. It skips out of the glass with bright, cheery notes of crushed red and black currants, fresh blackberries, and Provence herbs, plus wafts of lavender and pencil lead. The medium-bodied palate delivers a good intensity of youthful, crunchy fruit, with grainy tannins and lively acidity, finishing with an herbal lift.
Drinking Date: 2023 - 2040
88
Vinous
Neal Martin
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01 Feb 23
The 2019 Le Boscq has an understated bouquet with blackberry and light bilberry scents, nicely defined with well-integrated oak. The palate is medium-bodied with brambly red fruit, grainy in texture, attenuating slightly towards the finish. Probably earlier-drinking than its peers. I suspect this might be closing down as it is well under my evaluation post-bottling. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.
Drinking Date: 2024 - 2033
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Robert Parker Wine Advocate
William Kelley
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07 Apr 22
The 2019 le Boscq exhibits rich aromas of cassis, cherries, tobacco leaf and underbrush, followed by a medium-bodied palate with creditable depth of fruit, lively acids and ripe but youthfully chewy tannins. It appears to possess some of the most aging potential of the various Dourthe wines.
Drinking Date: 2023 - 2040
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Jancis Robinson
Jancis Robinson
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18 Jan 23
Tasted blind. A mix of ripe fruit and sharpness – picked at two different times? Fairly simple, with all the appeal on the nose, and the palate a little lacking in fruit concentration, but certainly better than many vintages! Tannins on the end. (JR)
Drinking Date: 2025 - 2035