Château Rauzan-Ségla - Margaux 2016 (750ml)
Price: $148.00
| Producer | Château Rauzan-Ségla |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Margaux |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2016 |
| Sku | 1250106 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Jeb Dunnuck: 98+ Points
The monumental 2016 Château Rauzan-Ségla is up with the crème de la creme in the vintage and is a brilliant brilliant wine that readers should snatch up. Based on 68% Cabernet Sauvignon 30% Merlot and the rest Petit Verdot all raised in 60% new French oak it?s a powerful full-bodied Margaux that has thrilling notes of crème de cassis blueberries spring flowers new leather and obvious minerality as well as a Château Margaux-like sandalwood and exotic floral quality. Deep beautifully concentrated and as seamless and elegant as it gets it needs 4-5 years of bottle age (it?s brilliant even today) and will keep for 30+ years. Bravo!
vVinous: 97+ Points
The 2016 Rauzan-Ségla is simply stunning. Ample and generous in the glass the 2016 is a positively stellar wine that will leave readers weak at the knees. The flavors and textures are generous as this sublime Margaux shows off its alluring personality. Sweet red cherry plum pomegranate blood orange spice and rose petal are some of the many notes that run through this absolutely exquisite wine. The 2016 is just as impressive from bottle as it was from barrel maybe even more! Tasted three times.
vWine Advocate: 97+ Points
The 2016 Rauzan-Ségla is blended of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon 30% Merlot and 2% Petit Verdot aged in 60% new and 40% one-year-old barrels for 18 months. Medium to deep garnet-purple colored it sings of lifted red and black cherries black raspberries and cassis with a rose hip tea and lilacs undercurrent plus sparks of tobacco pencil shavings and tilled earth. The palate is medium-bodied elegant and mineral laced with firm fine-grained tannins and beautiful freshness finishing with great length and depth.
Wine Enthusiast: 97 Points
Dark tannins work with the sophisticated structure of this wine. The very fine tannins are an important element of the wine giving shape to the ripe black fruits and acidity. This wine rich and structured is set for a long development. Drink from 2026.
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
This has a lovely core of creamy anise-infused plum blackberry and boysenberry flavors that showcase themselves a bit more vividly than many Margaux peers in this vintage do with substantial but velvety grip and lots of extra violet graphite and black tea notes adding to the long flow of a finish. Really beautiful feel. Best from 2023 through 2038.
