Bordeaux 2014 Primeurs: Moulis & Listrac Tasting Notes
Looking to Moulis first, the wines of this appellation were led, as is often the case, by Château Poujeaux and Château Chasse-Spleen. The former shows an attractive blackcurrant and black cherry character, but it conveys the coolness of the summer in its rather restrained, fruit-stone succulence. As for the latter, this has a rather juicy character which also speaks of the simplicity of the 2014 vintage. I can’t see it gathering a reputation as one of the estate’s more desirable vintages.
Close by in Moulis is Château Mauvesin Barton, a property which was acquired by the Barton family, of Château Langoa-Barton and Château Léoville-Barton, only a few years ago. While today it is Lilian Barton-Sartorius who looks after the family’s two estates in St Julien, having largely taken over from doyen Anthony Barton, it is Lilian’s daughter, Mélanie Barton-Sartorius who is taking the reins at the estate in Moulis, which they purchased in 2011. Having tasted the wine for the first time in this vintage, it is perhaps a little too premature to judge, nevertheless it seems as though the family still have some work to do in order to bring things up to scratch here. In this vintage I certainly preferred the wines of Château Maucaillou and Château Malmaison. These were both rather chalky and perfumed, with grainy and degraded fruit character, but they seemed a touch more convincing. Having said that, neither lit any flames of passion within me.
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