Red · Saint-Émilion Grand Cru · France
Château La Gaffelière Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Premier Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 4,079 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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Is Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Premier Grand Cru Classé) a good wine?
Tasting profile
A complex, well-aged Right Bank Bordeaux showing plum and dark red fruit alongside tobacco, leather, and grilled spice, with floral lifts of roses on a long finish. The palate is smooth and velvety with soft, integrated tannins, medium-plus acidity, and balanced oak, drinking beautifully now but with room to age further.
Synthesized from 4,079Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Plums, tobacco and intense dark red fruit in the nose. complex and smooth in the mouth, burned, tobacco and Saleh follow with the friendly tannienes”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Red color of average intensity. Fruity, fresh and ripe nose. Caressing on the palate of fruity and fresh type. Developing very tasty, the wine evolves with coated tannins and a lovely violet aroma in its persistence.
Château La Gaffelière Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Premier Grand Cru Classé) is Merlot grown in Saint-Émilion Grand Cru, bottled as a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $67.50, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds. The calibrated figure is built from 4,079 of its Vivino reviewers. A broader pool of 4,172 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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- Red · France · 1,134 wines
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