2018 Chateau La Couspaude Grand Cru Classe

2018 Chateau La Couspaude Grand Cru Classe

2018 Chateau La Couspaude 2018 Grand Cru Classe Another rich, powerful Saint-Emilion, the 2018 Château La Couspaude sports a dense purple/plum color as well as a rocking nose of black cherries, wild herbs, iron, tapenade, and spicy oak. Rich, full-bodied, and concentrated on the palate, it has an expansive mouthfeel, terrific mid-palate depth, and a great finish. It needs 2-4 years of bottle age to shed some oak, but this is a beautiful, layered, hedonistic 2018 with loads to love. 94pts JD

In the brightness of its youth, the Chateau La Couspaude 2018 presents an intense purple color. On the first few sniffs, the nose reveals a great aromatic richness and beautifully concentrated fruit. Notes of black berries, elderberry, blackberry, black cherry and plum make way for slightly smoked and roasted notes. On the palate, the wine captivates with its richness and generosity, displaying a beautiful tannic structure, notes of black fruits and sweet spices. The finish is very long, leaving behind delicious fruit and spicy flavors.

Born from a beautiful terroir of clay-limestone soils on the Right Bank of Bordeaux, the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classe Chateau La Couspaude 2018 is made from a blend of Merlot (75%), Cabernet Franc (20%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (5%).
Once in a while you taste a Bordeaux that has no business drinking as well as it does. A glorious bouquet that interplays fruit brilliantly, the palate is supple and smooth with soaring alive red and black fruits and a finish too die for. I just tasted the 2018 Chateau La Couspaude Grand Cru Classe from St Emilion and when I worked out the price I could offer it for, I was blown away. 2018 is a buy vintage, rated 94-96 by Parker for the vintage. This is text book drinking to perfection right bank Bordeaux. This is a wine I would purchase to enjoy over the next ten years . Its drinking brilliantly and it screams why Bordeaux is so desired. What a wine! Now the best part is the price. We have the best price out there for the, down to $59.99 with Free Shipping on a case. What a buy!

La Couspaude is the flagship Winery of the Aubert Family (active in Bordeaux for 2 centuries) and today Yohan Aubert makes the wine. Chateau La Couspaude is located in the heart of Saint Emilion, near the famous monolithic church carved out of solid rock. This is a boutique winery, only 7 hectares, The walled in vineyard of Chateau La Couspaude is one large block of vines. Interestingly, the vineyard has remained the exact same size for close to 300 years! The terroir is chalk, clay and limestone soils. The vines are planted to a density of 6,500 vines per hectare. The vines have an average age of 50 y ears. La Couspaude are famous and world renowned. I strongly recommend. Experience the greatness of Bordeaux at a great price.