2019 Chantegrive
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The 2019 Château De Chantegrive is also terrific, with lots of black cherry and darker raspberry fruits to go with cedary herbs, tobacco, and earth. Nicely textured, balanced, and medium-bodied, it's well worth buying and drinking. It should keep for a decade.
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Neal Martin
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The 2019 Chantegrive has turned out well, exhibiting aromas of sweet berries, cherries and plums mingled with notions of loamy soil. Medium to full-bodied, charming and lively, with powdery tannins and a nicely balanced profile, it's an attractive, understated Graves that will flesh out with a few years in bottle.
The 2019 Chantegrive has a tightly wound nose at first, opening with aeration to reveal black currant, sage and clove scents; more scorched earth aromas develop with time. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, and fine acidity, if maybe just a little drier on the finish than I would have preferred. Still, it should give several years of drinking pleasure.