Chateau d'Armailhac (Futures Pre-Sale) 2020 Front Label

Chateau d'Armailhac (Futures Pre-Sale) 2020

Bordeaux Red Blends

WE95
JS94
JD94
WS94
WW94
D93
RP92

750ML / 13% ABV

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2021

JS93
RP93
D93
JD92

2019

WE95
JD94
V94
JS94
WS94
D93
RP93

2018

JS95
D94
RP93
WE93
JD93
WW93
WS93

2017

JS94
WS94
JD92
WW92
WE92
RP92
D91

2016

JS95
JD94
RP93
D93
WS93
CG91
WE90

2012

JS92
RP91
WE91

2011

WE91
WS90
JS90

2010

JS93
WS93
RP92

2009

WE93
JS93
WS92
RP91

2008

WE92
RP90

2006

JS91
RP91

2005

W&S92
WE90
WS90
RP90

2004

W&S90
WS90

2003

RP90

2001

RP89

2000

WS92
RP91

1999

WS90

1998

RP89

1997

RP87

1996

JS90

1989

WS94

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750ML / 13% ABV

Winemaker Notes

Blend: 59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot

Critical Acclaim

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WE 95

Wine Enthusiast

Dense with spicy black fruits and some dark chocolate flavors, this is going to be a fine vintage from this estate with the same winemaking team as Mouton-Rothschild. The concentration of the wine brings out the potential of this now important property.
Barrel Sample: 93-95

JS 94

James Suckling

A fresh, layered red with blackberry and chocolate. It’s full and beautiful. Cool finish. Soft tannins spread across the finish. Savory.

Barrel Sample: 93-94

JD 94

Jeb Dunnuck

A blend of 59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, the balance Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, hitting 13.2% alcohol, the 2020 Château D'Armailhac sports a vivid purple hue to go with beautiful cassis and blackberry fruits intermixed with lots of chalky minerality, toasty oak, graphite, and tobacco. It has the round, supple style of the vintage yet still brings ample tannic grip, solid mid-palate depth, and a great finish. It's beautifully done and should be drinkable with just 2-4 years of bottle age yet age just fine.
Barrel Sample: 92-94

WS 94

Wine Spectator

Shows a core of lovely mulberry, cassis and plum reduction flavors that stretch out over a racy graphite note, in turn revealing flashes of anise, apple wood and sweet tobacco. Offers a late tug of warm earth, too. Rock-solid, with an old-school hint.

WW 94

Wilfred Wong of Wine.com

COMMENTARY: The 2020 Château d'Armailhac is fresh and active. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of precise blackcurrants and a hint of oak. Serve it with rosemary and black peppercorn-accented grilled ribeye. (Tasted: January 27, 2023, San Francisco, CA)

D 93

Decanter

A little austere on the opening beats. Carving out its place more clearly alongside its two Pauillac siblings, this has some excellent sappy dark fruits, plenty of tannins and power but also elegance and confidence. This Armailac is gorgeous, lovely mid palate dept, and plenty of juicy blueberry and bilberry fruit, with lift through the finish, 3% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 50% new oak. Harvest September 7 to 29. The new cellar with be finished for the 2021 harvest, but this one was made in the temporary cellar. I really like this, it has a floral edge, a juice and freshness and sense of elegance; a good two minutes after you have stopped tasting a wave of subtle smoke comes in - the after wash of a fine gravel terroir.
Barrel Sample: 93

RP 92

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, the 2020 D'Armailhac strides confidently out of the glass with classic scents of cassis, warm plums and cedar chest, plus wafts of pencil lead, bay leaves and kirsch. The medium-bodied palate has a sturdy frame of chewy tannins and plenty of freshness to support the crunchy black and red fruits, finishing savory.

Barrel Sample: 90-92

Chateau d'Armailhac

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Chateau d'Armailhac Baroness Philippine and her children Winery Image

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Chateau d'Armailhac, classified as a Fifth Growth in 1855, is a close neighbor of Chateau Mouton Rothschild. Its 123 acres of vines, surrounding the beautiful grounds of the main house, are planted with the typical varieties of the region: 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot.

The estate, in the d'Armailhacq family since the 18th century and named Chateau Mouton d'Armailhacq after them, was acquired by Baron Philippe in 1933. Between 1956 and 1989, it was called successively Chateau Mouton Baron Phillipe then Chateau Mouton Baronne Phillipe. In 1989, Baroness Phillipine de Rothschild restored part of its original identity, renaming it Chateau d'Armailhac. The wine, aged in oak casks, combines finesse and elegance with powerful, well-structured tannins.

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