Ch.La Gaffeliere 2004 750ml

Wine Advocate #171, Jun 29, 2007, by Robert M. Parker, Jr.
This beautiful offering is a striking success for the vintage. Elegant, pure, and impeccably detailed as well as noble, the deep ruby/purple-tinged 2004 La Gaffeliere reveals fragrant aromatics of sweet cherries, cassis, menthol, and loamy soil. Medium to full-bodied with soft tannin, outstanding ripeness as well as texture, and a lovely, low acid, lush finish, this stunningly complex, already evolved St.-Emilion should drink handsomely for another 12-15+ years. It is a sleeper of the vintage.

Chateau La Gaffeliere, previously Chateau Gaffeliere-Naudes, is a Bordeaux wine from the Saint-Emilion appellation, ranked among the Premiers grands crus classe B in the Classification of Saint-Emilion wine. The winery is located west of Chateau Pavie, just south of the town of Saint-Emilion, within the commune of the same name.
Founded on the ruins of a Gallo-Roman villa named "Le Palat", and later a 17th century leper colony, the estate was sharecropping land that came to the ownership of the Comte de Malet-Roquefort. The word "gaffet" translates to leper.
Near the end of the 19th century, the original extensive estate was divided into what became Chateau Canon-la-Gaffeliere, and the area then called Puygenestous-Naudes, renamed Chateau Gaffeliere-Naudes. The name was simplified after 1963. After three centuries, it still belongs to the Malet-Roquefort family.From 25 hectares the vineyard area extends 22 hectares, with a grape variety of 66% Merlot, and the remainder split between Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Chateau La Gaffeliere annually produces on average 10,000 cases of the Grand vin.

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