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2009 Wine - Red Les Asteries

2009 Les Asteries (Bordeaux - St. Emilion, France)
Wine - Red $269.99 (750mL)

A limited cuvee fashioned from the hardest type of limestone (called Asteries). 70% Merlot, 30% CabFranc, this brilliant wine comes from 90 year old vines with very low yield, it is meatier and more dense than Jonathan Malthus' other wines but just as voluptuous and enticing. Used to be part of Chateau Fonroque. Only 300 cases made of his garagiste wine. Extremely limited availability.

Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate

Rating: 98

From vines sitting on hard limestone, this wine is a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc that offers prodigious levels of extract, richness, complexity and overall harmony. A fabulous wine, with black fruits galore intermixed with a liqueur of crushed rocks and spring flowers, the wine has plenty of tannin and is best cellared over at least 4-5 years and consumed over the following two decades.

This property, owned by Jonathan Maltus, is located 100 meters from his Le Carre, and of course the nearby Clos Fourtet, which produced a perfect wine in 2009.


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