Poesia Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2020

Jeb Dunnuck

Based on 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc, the 2020 Château Poesia has a wonderful purity and freshness in its ripe blue fruits, tobacco, cedar, and spring flower-like aromas and flavors. Medium to full-bodied, it has good acidity, ultra-fine tannins, beautiful overall balance, and just a classy, seamless, incredibly elegant profile. It's another gorgeous wine from this incredible team.

James Suckling

This has a complex nose of plums, blackcurrants, chocolate, hazelnuts and violets. Licorice. Crushed stones and green olives, too. Fragrant and layered, with a medium to full body, fine tannins and excellent freshness. Sophisticated and elegant St Emilion.

The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2020 Poesia has a powerful nose of baked plums, boysenberry preserves, and Chinese five spice with hints of potpourri and mocha. The full-bodied palate is firm and grainy with concentrated, impactful fruit and a very long, very fruity finish.

Falstaff

Dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, faint brightening on rim. Candied purple, a hint of liquorice, black wild berries, discreet noble wood savouriness. Complex, substantial, a whiff of fig, elegant and freshly structured, ripe tannins, fine nougat, mineral and adherent, certain ageing potential.

Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

Black plums, chocolate, licorice, flowers and espresso create the nose. From there you find a rich, fresh, vibrant, creamy-textured, concentrated and mineral driven wine with a long, intensive, refined finish with layers of mineral-driven, dark red fruits, spices, cocoa and savory herbs in the chalky endnote.

Antonio Galloni

The 2020 Poesia is superb, just as it was from barrel. Black cherry, plum, spice, new leather, licorice, cedar and mocha infuse this broad, ample Saint-Émilion with remarkable complexity. This is an especially dense, full-throttle Saint-Émilion, but it all works so well.

Bettane et Desseauve

“Sculptural, Poésia 2020 is impressive. In its fresh and intense register, it imposes a unique personality, built for long ageing. This vintage crowns the work of Patrice Lévêque, an omnipresent winemaker who benefits from the technical effects of the new cellar.”

Robert Parker

The 2020 Poesia opens in the glass with attractively pure aromas of cherries, raspberries, rose petals and violets. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and seamless, it's vibrant and mineral, with bright acids and a long, saline finish reflecting the shallow soils and limestone bedrock that define this later-ripening site.

Bettane & Desseauve

Sculptural, Poésia 2020 is impressive. In its fresh and intense register, it imposes a unique personality, built for long ageing. This vintage crowns the work of Patrice Lévêque, an omnipresent winemaker who benefits from the technical effects of the new cellar.