2023 Rauzan Segla
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The 2023 Rauzan-Ségla has the highest percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon ever, at 85% (the highest previously was 2021, with 71%), as the Merlot suffered more from mildew. The result is a very impressive wine, with pretty floral perfume and vibrant, tightly packed redcurrant and blackcurrant fruit. The palate is refined and sleek, with compact fruit, tart acidity and chalky tannins. It’s silken, fresh, concentrated and pure, with lovely balance (13.5% alcohol and 3.6pH). Aged in 55% new oak. Blend: 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13.5% Merlot, 1.5% Petit Verdot
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
Neal Martin, Vinous
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This estate continues to never put a foot wrong, and their 2023 Château Rauzan-Ségla is one class act. Deep purple-hued, with fabulous aromatics of cassis, smoky blue fruits, tobacco, spicy oak, and subtle floral notes, it hits the palate with medium to full-bodied richness, a polished, incredibly elegant mouthfeel, and ripe, fine-grained tannins. It's not a blockbuster, but it shines for its flawless balance, complexity, and length.
Dark in color, the array of floral notes shoot out with violets, lilacs, and roses. From there you find truffle, red and black fruits, cigar box and cedar also come IT is It is the striking nose powered by violets, and lilacs that gets the wine going, before finding all the currants, black cherries, mint, and spice in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is lush, energetic, long, deep, and rich. There is purity, paired with opulence in the long, vibrant, velvet-textured finish, with just a hint of chalk that appears on the backend. The wine is a blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13.5% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot. Once aging, this is a new, record-setting percentage of Cabernet in the blend. 14% Press wine. 13.5% ABV, 3.6 pH. The harvest took place September 7 - September 20. Yields were 30 hectoliters per hectare. The Grand Vin was produced from 50% of the harvest.
The 2023 Rauzan-Segla is deep garnet-purple in color. It prances out with flamboyant notes of Morello cherries, blackcurrant pastilles, violets, and licorice giving way to suggestions of rosebud tea, crushed rocks, and Sichuan pepper. The medium-bodied palate delivers amazing tension to offset the shiny black and red berry layers, framed by velvety tannins, finishing long and perfumed. This is gorgeous! The blend is 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13.5% Merlot, and 1.5% Petit Verdot, aging 18 months in oak, 55% new, with pH 3.61 and yield 30 hl/ ha.
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About the producer
Ch. Rauzan-Ségla is a Margaux Second Growth and has become a leading wine estate under Chanel’s ownership.