Chateau Saint Hilaire Medoc 2020

Chateau Saint Hilaire, Cru Bourgeois Medoc, Bordeaux, France, 2020

Grapes: A blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon & 44$ Merlot, 30ha vineyard, Terra Vitis sustainable farming, clay-limestone and deep gravel soils, hand picked, aged 12 months in French oak barrels (25% new)

Producer Tasting Note:

This still youthful wine is crimson-hued with purple tints. The powerful, refined nose is a marriage of red-berried fruit with elegant oak and strong hints of spice. The front-of-palate displays plump, creamy extract, the mid-palate revealing a balanced structure that gives this wine fine length. An excellent wine from an exceptional year. A few years’ patience will be required to taste it at its peak

Critics' Tasting Notes:.

"Medium-bodied, fresh, chewy, bright red fruits with a touch of citrus and tobacco is fully ready-to-go for a easy-going, tasty, Left Bank blend. The wine is a blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon and 44% Merlot."  Drink from 2023-2032

89/100 points, Jeff Leve, THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER, March 2023

"This has energy to its berry fruits, with mandarin peel and fennel notes, tannins a little restrictive but will soften further over the next few years, and offers good value. Domaines Uijttewaal, an estate also known for its production of Blonde d’Aquiaine meat. Terra Vitis."

88/100 points, Jane Anson, INSIDE BORDEAUX, January 2023

Also awarded GOLD at the Concours des Grands Vins de France Macon, 2022 and 2 Stars (out of 3) by Le Guide Hachette des Vins, 2024

The vineyard of Château Saint-Hilaire was created in 1982 in Jau Dignac Loirac, on deep, gravel soils overlooking the Gironde Estuary. Adrien Uijttewaal gradually expanded the estate to the neighbouring village of Queyrac, with its terroir of gravelly knolls and clay subsoil, by steadily planting new vines and the acquisition of vines of around 30 years in age. This excellent terroir yields wines with all the finesse and elegance typical of the Médoc appellation and which have been made on the estate, in a modern winemaking facility, only since 1995. Château Saint-Hilaire became a Cru Bourgeois with the revision of the classification in 2003.

Food Match: Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding