Chateau Saint-Pierre 2020

JAMES SUCKLING: "A velvety-textured red with medium to full body, showing hazelnut, currant and chocolate character. Creamy texture. Delicious finish. Plenty going on here. Drink after 2025."

DECANTER: "High-toned, expressive, ripe and perfumed. The fruit is there but laced entirely with grippy tannins, though velvety, and lots of liquorice that dominates the palate though there are nice salty mineral edges to this too. Good acidity keeps the energy but this is a fairly hefty style in terms of flavour concentration. I do like the texture, sleek with well-integrated tannins. Not muscular as it’s linear but the tannic frame is bold and imposing - hold on to for a few years."

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "From a three-hectare parcel between Petit Village and Vieux Château Certan, near the village church, comes the 2020 Saint-Pierre (Pomerol), a strong effort that offers up aromas of plums and blackberries mingled with orange rind and toasty new oak. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and layered, with polished tannins and a gourmand but nicely balanced profile, aging vines and new plantings of Cabernet Franc are delivering impressive quality."

JEB DUNNUCK: "I was thrilled to see the 2020 Château Saint-Pierre (Pomerol) show so well as it comes from a terrific terroir and has been a touch erratic in the past (although it's always good). A blend of 87% Merlot and 13% Cabernet Franc from vines near Vieux Château Certan and Le Pin, it has a beautiful perfume of darker cherries, currants, chocolate, earthy tobacco, and loamy soil. This carries to a medium to full-bodied Pomerol with fine, polished tannins, a layered, balanced mouthfeel, and a great finish. It's a beautiful 2020 that readers will love. It should evolve for 15 years if well-stored."

THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "Flowers, chocolate covered plums, espresso and licorice create the catchy nose. Darkly colored, lush, medium-bodied, polished and with a blast of chocolate-covered supple, dark red fruits, licorice and smoke in the finish. I am really liking this wine. This is the best vintage of Saint Pierre Pomerol yet."