| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | France > Bordeaux > Right Bank > Pomerol |
| Colour | Red |
| Type | Still |
The 2019 Château de Sales has an open-knit bouquet with red cherries and crushed strawberry fruit, not quite as complex as its peers. The palate is medium-bodied, somewhat old school in style with dry tannins and a structured finish. Fine backbone here, an impressive retro 2019! One of the best vintages in recent years. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting. Drink 2026-2042.
The 2019 De Sales has a deep garnet-purple color, rolling effortlessly out of the glass with impressively intense baked cherries, plum preserves and fruitcake scents with nuances of potpourri, licorice, chocolate box and fragrant earth. The medium to full-bodied palate is chock-full of ripe, seductive black fruit preserves, framed by rounded tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and perfumed.
This is a really enjoyable, sleek and well put together de Sales, and you can see the work that has been undertaken over the past few years to build up the mid palate and generally improve the focus and fruit delivery. An enjoyable medium term drinker.
A classic, fresher, elegant Pomerol from the vintage, the 2019 Château De Sales has a ruby hue as well as a pretty nose of red, black, and blue fruits intermixed with sappy herbs, flowers, and cedar pencil. Medium-bodied, elegant, very pretty, and lightly textured, I love its purity of fruit as well as its balance, although I'd like to have seen a touch more richness and depth. Drink bottles over the coming 10-12 years.
A serious, brooding nose, darkly seductive with touches of sweet oak and black berries. Alive and fruit forward on the palate but also quite linear and direct. The instant generosity of fruit flavours is really appealing, the mouth is filled with bright summer berry touches and the tannins are ample and supple coating the tongue yet this still has an aerial quality. Feels suave and charming - well worked with lots of precise details with such a minty fresh finish. Excellent ageing potential. 2025-2045
The 2019 vintage of Château de Sales is crafted from a blend of 72.5 percent merlot, 12.5 percent cabernet franc and fifteen percent cabernet sauvignon, which is a pretty high percentage of this last grape in the context of today’s Pomerol. The wine comes in at an even fourteen percent octane in this vintage, which is nicely measured in 2019, and offers up a lovely nose of plums, black cherries, dark chocolate, cigar ash, dark soil tones, a deft framing of new oak and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a lovely core of ripe black fruit, good soil signature, ripe, fine-grained tannins and a long, well-balanced and quite promising finish. This is going to be a very good wine once it is ready to drink. This harkens back stylistically just a touch to the old days at Vieux Château Certan, when cabernet sauvignon also played a more important role in the cépages of that important estate. Good juice. (Drink between 2029-2065)
