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2022 Château Le Gay

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Minimum Bid is $751
(Ships separately, charges apply)
Ends Sunday, 7pm Pacific

ITEM 10608649 - Removed from a temperature and humidity controlled wine cellar

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$540
2022 Château Le Gay
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2022 Château Le Gay

RATINGS

97James Suckling

The complex aromas of brambleberries and fresh herbs such as lemongrass and Italian basil come through beautifully here, giving a liveliness and focus. Medium-bodied with firm and silky tannins and a racy and refined finish. Tight. Really lovely.

95Jeb Dunnuck

Mulled black cherries, flowers, new leather, and truffle earth, as well as some subtle smoky nuances, all emerge on the nose, and it's medium to full-bodied, has a supple, elegant, layered mouthfeel, integrated tannins, and outstanding length.

93Wine Spectator

...layer of mocha and açaí paste draped over fresher flavors of raspberry and red currant coulis...fruit shows persistence through the finish...

93Vinous / IWC

...has an admirable, delineated bouquet with beautifully integrated oak, allowing the blackcurrant, raspberry, and vanilla pod scents to flourish...palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, gentle grip and a minor mote of greenness on the back palate. This is quite a saline Pomerol with a dash of black pepper toward the swarthy finish.

91-93The Wine Advocate

...aromas of rich cassis, menthol and toasty new oak, followed by a full-bodied, rich and rather muscular palate framed by sweet, liberally extracted tannins that assert themselves on the finish.

PRODUCER

Château Le Gay

Château le Gay is a 20-acre estate in Pomerol now owned by Catherine Pere-Verge, heiress to large glassware and crystal company. Pere-Verge also owns two other Pomerol estates, Château Montviel and Château La Croix des Templiers. The estate grows 50% Cabernet Franc and 50% Merlot. Some 24,000 bottles are produced annually and there is no second wine.

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Pomerol

Pomerol is the smallest of Bordeaux’s red wine producing regions, with only about 2,000 acres of vineyards. Located on the east side of the Dordogne River, it is one of the so-called “right bank” appellations and therefore planted primarily to Merlot. Pomerol is unique in Bordeaux in that it is the only district never to have been rated in a classification system. Some historians think Pomerol’s location on the right bank made it unattractive to Bordeaux-based wine traders, who had plenty of wine from Medoc and Graves to export to England and northern Europe. Since ranking estates was essentially a marketing ploy to help brokers sell wine, ranking an area where they did little business held no interest for them. Pomerol didn’t get much attention from the international wine community until the 1960s, when Jean-Pierre Moueix, an entrepreneurial wine merchant, started buying some of Pomerol’s best estates and exporting the wines. Today the influential Moueix family owns Pomerol’s most famous estate, Château Pétrus, along with numerous other Pomerol estates. Pomerol wines, primarily Merlot blended with small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, are considered softer and less tannic than left bank Bordeaux.