2017 Grandes Murailles 6 Pack

92 POINTS

Wine Spectator

Ripe and alluring, featuring crushed plum and blackberry preserve flavors enmeshed with anise, fruitcake and roasted apple wood notes. Shows good underlying structure but maintains a plush feel overall.

92 POINTS

Jane Anson - Decanter

Damson brushed fruits, this has an elegant but gourmet edge, making it full of appellation typicity, and it displays a good balance of power and precision. The oak is evident, clear cedar notes throughout, and the tannins are well stacked, building up towards the close of play. Good quality and enjoyable.

92 POINTS

Jacques Perrin - Vinifera

Nez sur la confiture de baies noires (mûre, cerise), avec beaucoup de chair. Vin profond, velouté, qui met en avant la maturité d’un fruit bien mûr, riche, puissant.

92 POINTS

Antonio Galloni MW - Vinous

The 2017 Les Grandes Murailles is a beautiful wine, but it is also a bit richer and more overt than it has been in the past. Inky blue/purplish fruit, chocolate, menthol, spice and sweet oak add to the wine's decidedly extroverted personality. The 2017 is an especially bold, luscious Grandes Murailles.

91 POINTS

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2017 Grandes Murailles opens with fresh black raspberries and blackberries on the nose plus hints of charcuterie, tar and chargrill. The palate is medium-bodied with a well-played chewy frame coming into balance with the succulent fruit and ample freshness, finishing with a pleasant lift.

91 POINTS

Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider

Truffle, chocolate, plum and leafy notes on the nose lead to a medium bodied, polished, fresh wine. You'll find dark plummy, round fruits, silky tannins and a touch of oak on the back end. The wine is made from 100% old vine Merlot, reaching 14.4% alcohol

91 POINTS

James Suckling

There’s a sheen of fine oak spice across this gently floral and leafy St.-Emilion. The palate has a nice core of quite fluid and attractively balanced, dark-plum flesh. Fine tannins.

91 POINTS

Antonio Galloni MW - Vinous

The Les Grandes Murailles is gorgeous. Supple, racy and inviting, the 2017 shows a bit more raciness and overall depth than it usually does, but all the elements are very nicely put together. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, licorice and spice all run through this lush, impeccably balanced, mid-weight Saint-Émilion from the Cuvelier family. Tasted two times. Points: 90-93