Chateau Phelan Segur Saint-Estephe 2018 i trækasse

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James Suckling

Aromas of blackcurrants, spice and flowers follow through to a medium body with fine tannins and a delicious, savory finish. So lovely to drink now, but will improve nicely with age. Very refined and balanced. Try after 2022.

Jeb Dunnuck

The flagship 2018 Château Phélan Ségur is a beauty based on 57% Cabernet Sauvignon and 43% Merlot. This was a great vintage for the Médoc, and the 2018 reveals a dense purple hue to go with powerful notes of blackcurrants, iron, smoked tobacco, chocolate, and earth. Rich, full-bodied, and concentrated, it has beautiful tannins, remarkable purity of fruit, and just does everything right. It has some up-front appeal today (no doubt due to the high Merlot content), yet it builds with time in the glass and shows more and more structure with air. It deserves 5-6 years of bottle age and will keep for 20-25. It's every bit as good as the 2016, if not better.

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Antonio Galloni

The 2018 Phélan Ségur is just as convincing from bottle as it was en primeur. Deep and beautifully layered, with exceptional finesse and tons of personality, the 2018 delivers the goods big time. Dark blue/black fruit, gravel, spice, menthol, licorice and dried herbs all build as the 2018 shows off its allure. There is plenty of vintage 2018 richness, but a good deal of supporting structure as well. The 2018 is just exquisite.

Decanter

An excellent vintage at Phelan Ségur, displaying a real sense of power and forward motion. Big tannins encircle the fruit, this is muscular, full of liquorice and just-bitter-enough dark chocolate, pencil lead and crushed slate. One to savour, and one that will age. One of the best in the appellation in this vintage. A yield of 48hl/ha. 3.8pH. Drinking Window 2025 – 2042

Le Figaro Vin

Andreas Larsson, Tasted

Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

Let's start off by saying this is the best vintage of Phelan Segur ever produced. The wine is ripe, lush, supple and juicy. There is volume, length and character galore to all the layers of sweet, rich, ripe, black and red fruits. There is lift, complexity and staying power in the finish.

Markus del Monego MW

On the palate well structured with excellent length, balanced character, sweet tannins and complex flavour of dark stone fruits and berry fruits as well as mild spices.

Vert de Vin Magazine

The nose is fruity, elegant, rich, powerful and offers gourmandize, concentration, a small racy power, a beautiful definition, harmony as well as a finely tight grain and a small intensity. It reveals notes of wild blackberry, wild raspberry and small notes of small ripe wild red fruits associated with touches of strawberry, violet, hints of small ripe wild fruits as well as touches of strawberry, violet, hints of racy minerality, camphor, violet, cherry blossom as well as discreet hints of zan, sweet spices, pepper, cardamom and a very fine hint of cornflower and tonka bean. The palate is fruity, well-balanced and offers freshness, juiciness, a beautiful definition as well as a fine acidulous frame, energy, a beautiful juicy/ripe fruit minerality and gourmandize. On the palate this wine expresses notes of pulpy/juicy cherry, juicy cassis and small notes of violet associated with touches of pulpy blackberry, cherry blossom, liquorice as well as a hint of camphor, black tea, sweet spices, hazelnut and a discreet hint of vanilla. Tannins are precise and well-built.

Bettane & Desseauve

Robert Parker

The 2018 Phélan Ségur is composed of 57% Cabernet Sauvignon and 43% Merlot, weighing in at 14% alcohol, 3.8 pH and has an IPT (total polyphenol index) of 77. Deep purple-black in color, it leaps from the glass with vibrant notes of crushed blackberries, blackcurrant jelly and kirsch, plus suggestions of menthol, Ceylon tea, forest floor and lavender. The medium-bodied palate delivers elegance and impressive vivacity with finely grained tannins and a refreshing line supporting the intense red and black berry layers, finishing long and perfumed.