Wine Chateau Gloria, St. Julien AOC, 2013
Tasting Notes
The color of wine - dark red with violet hue.
The wine has a powerful, rounded taste with a strong tannic structure, silky texture and juicy fruit and berry palette expressed in a medley of shades of prunes, plums, currants and blackberries. Spicy finish emphasizes the decisive character of this wine.
The wine reveals a wonderful aroma of red berries jam, as well as hints of licorice, acacia catechu and vanilla. Intense bouquet reveals bright colors of red and black fruit, anise and resin accents
Wine will be a good accompaniment of smoked duck, steak, stew. Perfectly with spicy meat and fish dishes, meats, prosciutto and blue cheese.
Interesting Facts
Elegant "Chateau Gloria" in 2011 - a silky, rounded wine, created by traditional recipe, so every year pleases consistently high quality and perfectly reflects the appellasona Saint-Julien. Due to the fact that the "Chateau Gloria" appeared in 1940, already after the Bordeaux vineyards were classified in 1855 and 1932, the price of this wine are reasonable, but the quality of some vintages can compete with the fourth or fifth class Grand Cru.
Henri Martin - the owner of Chateau Gloria, a famous mayor of San Julian and Grand Master of the Order of medokskogo Commanderie du Bontemps, - was one of the legendary people Medoc. He gathered estate Gloria "from pieces of" land purchased from neighboring Cru Classe, and created a Bordeaux wine is very decent quality, which is not kept in 225-liter barriques, and in 7000-liter barrels, so it has a very generous fruitiness, but less pronounced oak shade than wine neighbors. His fault, of course, always intended for a wide range of consumers. They were round, generous and very mature, with a wonderful cedar, spicy, almost grotesque bouquet. Under the direction of his son-in-Jean-Louis Trio, nothing has changed radically. Wine is surprisingly good look young, but can develop 12-15 years. Style wines "Chateau Gloria" has changed in the mid-1970s. Vintages "Gloria" 1978-1993 years seem lighter wines, fruity and less tannic than wines produced earlier. However vintages 2000, 1996 and 1995 were much meaty and rich, being perhaps the harbingers of a return to the style of "before 1978". Wine "Chateau Gloria" of any style are delightfully fluffy and delicious. Volume of production of Chateau Gloria - 200,000 bottles of wine.
