2016 chateau talbot 4eme cru classe, saint-julien
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Why We're Buying
Château Talbot is a mainstay on lists of the best Médoc wines. The fine gravelly soil produces a grand vin dominated by cabernet sauvignon and merlot. What makes Château Talbot special, though, is its longevity, with world-class stability and dependability during the aging process.
Critics Scores
Jeb Dunnuck
Brought up in 50 new oak, the 2016 Château Talbot is a winner and certainly over-delivers. Powerful notes of crème de cassis, tobacco leaf, lead pencil, and leafy herbs all give way to a silky, seamless Saint-Julien that has remarkable purity of fruit and building, fine tannins. It’s the texture as well as the purity that set this apart, and readers looking for a great value should purchase a case of this beauty.
Wine Spectator
Rock 'em, sock 'em St.-Julien, with mouthcoating ganache and tar notes backed by commensurate cassis, blueberry paste and blackberry reduction flavors. The long finish rumbles through, with buried brambly grip providing the support for the dense fruit and toast to meld. Best from 2025 through 2040.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Talbot is medium garnet-purple colored and opens with pretty floral notes of roses and lavender with a core of cassis, blackberry preserves and kirsch plus wafts of cigar box and spearmint. Medium-bodied with a lovely intensity of black and red fruit flavors, it has a ripe, grainy texture and compelling freshness, finishing savory.
Decanter
The anthocyanes are clearly on display in this inky purple wine. Touches of rusticity and earth sit alongside the rich cassis and bilberry fruit. It's a big, sculpted, gorgeously confident wine with a low pH and plenty of power. Matured in 50 new oak. Bottled in May 2018.
Wine Enthusiast
The smooth texture of this wine is deceptive. Behind its ripe black fruits and acidity, the wine has a strong sense of structure to give shape and potential to the freshness and fruit. The wine will age, not perhaps for the really long term but certainly it is worth waiting until 2025.
James Suckling
This is already a beautiful St.-Julien that’s ripe and elegant with not a jot too much oak or tannin, but a very fresh and lively finish that keeps on going. However, there are some serious reserves in this wine that need time to be released. Already very harmonious, but better from 2021.
Connoisseurs' Guide
We very much like the aromatic richness and depth with which this wine introduces itself, and we also like its solid structure and very fine palatal definition, but we are less enamored with the limiting, somewhat grainy tannins that interrupt its essential fruit flavors a little too effectively and a little too soon. It could do with a bit more fruity flesh on its very firm bones, but, in this case, we see fair reason to believe that aging will go a long way in providing just that.