Chateau Tertre Roteboeuf, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

This is drinking beautifully now with the ripeness receded replaced by classic St. Emilion notes of dark chocolate, black earth and sweet tobacco. Medium-bodied and layered with a fine mouthfeel and a smooth finish with complex notes of charcoal minerals and limestone chalk. This is how a good St. Emilion should age!

1998 vintage

I am not sure what to think of this one. I had a bottle of this 3-4 years ago and it was a delicious, opulent, baroque wine. This bottle was monolithic and brooding I would have taken a good Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux over this any time. Dumb phase?

2015 vintage

Meaty, leather, espresso, blackberry, cedar, licorice, mushroom, dried herbs. Animalistic style which reminds me of a Syrah. Interesting wine but not one I'll look for

1998 vintage

On the decline.

1995 vintage

Tasted on day two. Still an excellent wine. Powerful and structured with plenty of life left. Enjoy now and over the next 10+ years.

1995 vintage

Sympathique soirée avec mon acolythe vineux, j'ai nommé Renaud. Ouvert en parallèle d'un Leoville Barton 1995, le Tertre Rôteboeuf a été épaulé 3h avant le service. Le niveau base goulot ainsi que la très forte odeur de poivron m'ont d'abord fait craindre le pire. A table il dévoile une robe bien évoluée pour un vin de ce millésime, du verre en ressort des notes de poivron, de piment d'espelette, de tomate séchée et de girofle. Il en dégage une belle …

1995 vintage

Bordeaux trip with friends, Jan-Feb 2025; 1/30/2025-2/2/2025 (Bordeaux, St.Emilion) : Tasted blind. Dark impression. After a short decant the wine seemed to hide its beauty. Dark berries, espresso, tannins present. It improved with every sip, good balance between fruit and acidity, very smooth tannins. Will improve with age but very good already! 93+

2017 vintage

Exploring Chateau Batailley (Burwood) : Deep ruby going towards garnet, red around the edges. Barnyard skunk, black fruits, pencil shavings, menthol, cedar. The body is so plush and smooth, tannins very slightly drying, finish is medium towards short. More red fruit on the palate, the barnyard skunk is in the background, pencil shavings, cedar, some alcohol warmth, a very little bit bitter. Interesting, I do like it.

2017 vintage

Coravin fun - Chateau Batailley/Cellatracker in the flesh with ninetails (My place, Burwood) : From Coravin. Slight fruit tea and black tea, brambles, plums, touch of brett, a little red berry, slight herbaceous notes, smidge of alcohol warmth, fruit has a 'compote on the way to jam' quality, sweet baking spice, polished. Nice nose. Juicy, fleshy, fresh, surprisingly so given the slightly encroaching alcohol warmth, dark fruits less delineated but showing black over red here, super persistent tannins are coarse …

2017 vintage

Beautiful dark fruit bordering on the edge of over-ripeness but staying on the right side of the line, complicated by chestnut purée, dry aged beef, and cèpe. Really a delight.

1998 vintage

Verkeerde ingave

2015 vintage

Another beautiful example from the fantastic 1998 vintage on the right bank. This was stood upright for several days (although there ended up being minimal sediment at the end). It was a very fresh bottle, with red and dark fruits, pomegranate and boysenberry. It's in a lovely spot in its development, but possesses some tertiary interest with all the warmth and richness of the vintage. Generous and satiny, this was a killer bottle.

1998 vintage

Perfect St Emillion Fruit, complex, herbs Loved it pretty much straight from decanter

1998 vintage

Very closed at the start - give it time (slow ox) to express itself. Incredible bouquet after

1995 vintage

Last tasted 2 years ago, this, unusually for the vintage, is in a perfect spot. A BYO to a restaurant, so apologies for no detailed note. Drink now with a short decant. This is a delight and out drinks the 1989.

1995 vintage

Hedonistic Wines! (Jason's House) : Prep: From a magnum - Decanted for 3 hours prior to the event and consumed throughout the evening. Tasting Note: This was my first experience with this wine (from any vintage) and I was pleasantly surprised! California is known more for their fruit and Bordeaux is known more for their balance (acidity and tannins), but this wine had both! Purity of fruit and great structure! I have read that this wine is more "modern style" …

2015 vintage

Five hour decant. Deep dark ruby color. Rich nose of charred pecan pie and blackberry. Smooth, dry palate. Full tannins on the longish finish. This is much better than my notes suggest. I had been drinking for three or four hours straight at this point. This was another beauty from Jason’s (MN Wine Junkie) cellar.

2015 vintage

Big Red's : MN Wine Junkie's magnum. Big, rich, too young. I'm not sure how this will age.

2015 vintage

Big Style Wines (Jason's House, MN) : Still needs some cellar time. From a Mag. Earth, spice, tobacco, cherry and roasted Chesnuts. Firm tannins. Drink 2028 and beyond. 92+

2015 vintage

Tasted blind. I thought it was a left bank. Initially was all about pencil lead and burnt rubber. After more than two hours on a decanter it became completely balanced. Heady nose of ripe blackcurrant and plum compote, dried thyme. Very elegant on the palate, super fine tannins and mild acidity, very silky, sweet finish of sour red cherries.

1998 vintage

Poured into a decanter to serve. Quite resolved and forward. Medium length. Enjoyable. 91-92

1995 vintage

Stupendous wine. Intensity on a different level. Dark dark fruits, mocha, cedar (new oak but not obtrusive), sweet fruits, so long that you can taste it for hours. Certainly one of the best wines I’ve tasted in a long time . But not in any way over top. WOW

2017 vintage

Nose shows plenty of classic Bordeaux character. Tobacco, pencil shavings, dried red and black fruit, cigar box, dried leaves and flowers. Silky entry, med body, med acid, med tannin. Well balanced and a pleasure to drink. A touch of espresso on the finish. Still an awesome wine that is perfectly ready to drink. It should hang on for at least another 10 years.

1998 vintage

4th of 6, decanted 45 minutes, perfect cork and level, step up on last bottle in July 20, much greater complexity developing, energy, grip and silk, v persistent, limited upside now, 15+ years. VF (18.5).

1998 vintage

Odd tasting, strong oak flavors that hide the fruit. Doubt this will het better.

2015 vintage

Bordeaux for Napa lovers, but far better than Napa. I've commented three other times on this wine so will simply say it's luscious, complex, provocative, and profound. It'll surely age well and benefit from tertiary flavors. Yet it's fully enjoyable now and, frankly, a great value at this stage. The only California Bordeaux blends I'd pick over this are Ridge MB and Dunn HM, and both need 20+ years in good vintages. This extracted beast performed on release. Normally not …

2015 vintage

Admittedly, we are drinking this early but Kyle said that I should ignore the ready to drink report. We opened it because the 16 Napa cab we popped first was way off. It drank like an 18. Just not ready. So, this is barnyard and leather; freshly oiled leather; perfume. The palate is mid weight and the tannin lifts to the upper palate. It’s definitely not ready but it has so much potential. The nose will become mesmerizing. It’s on …

2015 vintage

Best to decant at least 1.5 hour before serving. It was showing a mix of primary and tertiary character. The fruit blossomed with time in the glass, gaining complexity and length. Very enjoyable. 92+

1995 vintage

DC Dinners and Tastings; 2/24/2024-2/26/2024 (Washington, DC) : Dark fruits, cedar, anise, tarragon, vanilla on the nose. Medium + intensity of aromas. Smells like it's going to be big. Pretty tightly wound on the palate at this juncture; with flavors of ripe blackberries, ripe dark plums and ripe black currants. Still quite young. The secondary flavors are integrated well with the fruits, and their intensity is a very nice medium +. Medium + body with medium + acid and medium …

2015 vintage

This should/could have been better. Bottle was first of my futures. Oddly brickish colour when poured and decanted for such a young wine. First sip was weirdly rich and somewhat off balance. Tasted side by side with same vintage DuMol Ballard cab - which was fresh and delicious from the moment if was poured and just kept getting better. After an hour or so the TR seemed to settled down but with a pronounced wood someday/toasted oak nose you might …

2015 vintage

tight and racy out of the gate, later sinewy, sappy, a bit of menthol and a lot of verve. a long complex finish. Very enjoyable quite different from any right bank I've had, you might say it's the Roc de Combs of St. Emillion. 95+

2017 vintage

Fabulous. It was wonderful in primary colours but now it is secondary it is in a serious magisterial mode. Slightly dusty, almost Pessac Leognan style. Deep and complex. Glorious example of a great right bank vintage. I leave it to others to describe it, I just bathe in the mixture of tastes and smells. Goes on for ever. Wow! (Will keep for years). A privilege to drink it. This is why one gets interested in great wine.

1998 vintage

Youthful garnet color. Nose is deeply berry fruited supported by spearmint and oak spice. High toned. Young, tannic. Needs time to open but showing a lot of promise. I like the texture. Hold for 10 to 15 years. First time with this wine, and I’m impressed. (93++)

2017 vintage

Still tasting young & fruity from a very tannic year in 1995. Long finish with some spice. A real pleasure to drink with food.

1995 vintage

Blind I would have either said Petrus or Vieux Chateau Certan. Very Pomerol plateau type of wine, right at the start, with a plush black berry cedar and leather inflected nose, followed by an all black fruited mouthfeel with an extremely inviting and luscious texture, the wine is generously open with excelent depth of flavors, tanins are very fine and polished, it is obvious there is great mastery at play here, as the phenolic maturity, the level of extraction, the …

2017 vintage

Tasted blind. Dark red with orange rim. Blackcurrant, stewed strawberry, crushed petals, cigar, cedar and pencil shaving. Perfume and elegant. Hint of cool climate. Balanced, good structure, and well made. Long finish. I thought it was a grand cru claret from Margaux. I was surprised it was from Right Bank. Prime to drink now, and can cellar for another decade easily.

1998 vintage

Black cherries, chocolate, smoke, spice, chocolate and roses meld together. The wine is lush, rich, full, opulent and elegant with a silky, polished, long finish. Fully mature, this is a beauty that I seem to have seriously underrated. Drink from 2023-2030.

1998 vintage

Remains stunning at this stage !

1998 vintage

Quite solid, fully integrated. Not backwards like some 98 right banks still are. I would say possibly on the downslope at this point. Some good spices but nothing that blew me away given the vintage. I think TR might be an earlier drinking wine in general based on other experiences anyways.

1998 vintage

A remarkably good bottle (cork, fill, etc) and wine. This had everything. A little coiled initially, an hour in the decanter had it ready to roll. All the best facets of 98, with ample ripeness and concentration. The Merlot component (80% from what I can glean) really shines today, with all sorts of plum and berry fruit remaining, alongside a well developed tertiary spectrum. Balanced acidity and resolved tannic structure have this lovely specimen ready to deliver some pleasure. An …

1998 vintage

My final bottle of this vintage. Opened, but not decanted for over an hour, and shared with my wine group. Long finish, spice notes, some fruit and little tannins left. It went very well with my buttermilk roasted chicken, especially the dark meat.

1995 vintage

Some wines one has to try. The top shoulder level, fully wet work that fell in the bottle on the first touch of the corkscrew. So a lot of questions here if the bottle we had is indeed characteristic of the wine or not but the wine felt healthy and no noticeable faults so we went along. The nose is full mature, earthy, leathery . The palate soft, fragile in a way and quite short on the finish . The …

1986 vintage

Interesting tasting and talk with the enthusiastic Francois Mitjavile, the owner at Chateau Tertre Roteboeuf. What makes his wines truly special, is the fine grained tannins and the phenolic maturation. The wines feel light and drinkable quite early. The 2017 has aromas of blackberry, plum, cherry, cedar, coffee, chocolate and earthy notes. Very elegant and long.

2017 vintage

Barely drinkable as it was so sweet and ripe, syrupy . Impossible with food at the moment. Hopefully will sort itself out over the next decade.

2015 vintage

Last tasted 2 years ago, it is consistent in its delivery. It is unusually forward for a 1995 wine and is fully mature only needing an hour in the decanter. The nose is deeply fruited with ripe red cherry and blackberry and is the wine's best feature. The palate is displaying secondary notes and is well balanced with good depth. As the fruit has faded the finish has suffered with over tannic notes exposed.

1995 vintage

Nose: raspberries, leather, roses and sour cherries. Intriguing mix of dark, red and floral scents. Palate: ripe cherries, gingerbread, blood oranges with a mass of smooth tanins. Creamy and layered. Unique style, unlike anything else I tasted so far. So ripe and elegant at the same time. Though I usually wait 10 years on my bordeaux before to pull the cork, this one is already good to go. Luckily got a few more in the cellar - curious to see …

2015 vintage

In the category of hedonistic Bordeaux blends enjoyed young, this wine tops my flavor chart, ahead of New World contenders. Why? I think it's the deep, raw oxblood flavor. What does oxblood taste like? No clue, honestly. In dress shoes, oxblood is a darker shade of red with more brown than purple. I imagine the equivalent here, where oxblood is deeper and darker in flavor than raw beef/blood. Perhaps more like bone marrow. The rich, bloody flavor of TR is …

2015 vintage

Awesome lineup at Anhelo in downtown Phoenix. If there ever was an interesting menage de trois lineup for a Wednesday night, this would certainly fit the bill. Wines were paired with Truffle risotto with pork loin - yummers. Didn’t expect the first two to pair well as I was really focused on the ‘15 TR. Didn’t spend too much time analyzing the wine, simply enjoyed the company and dinner. 2018 Calon Segur- had to check back in 2018 Pichon Lalande …

2015 vintage

Huge wine, with lots warm fruit, noticeable alcohol, but some grip and good structure. Notes of blackberry, black currant, tar, lard, baking powder, smoke and some eucalyptus. Very enjoyable wine for sure but definitely a modern style and loses some points for me with the alcohol that was distracting to say the least. If the heat and that burnt feeling work their way out over time this has potential to gain a couple of points but this bottle tonight as …

2017 vintage

Beautiful ripe black fruit but without being heavy. Cigar box, leather and herbs de Provence. Plummy and cool on the palate, very fine tannins and rather long. Excellent.

1998 vintage

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