CHÂTEAU RAUZAN GASSIES 2005
CHÂTEAU RAUZAN GASSIES 2005
CHÂTEAU RAUZAN GASSIES 2005
CHÂTEAU RAUZAN GASSIES 2005
CHÂTEAU RAUZAN GASSIES 2005
CHÂTEAU RAUZAN GASSIES 2005
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2005

CHÂTEAU RAUZAN GASSIES 2005

Wine 2005 2ème Cru Classé  Bordeaux Margaux

Tasting notes: Harvested relatively early, the Merlot brings roundness and freshness to the wine with a delicious and crunchy fruit. Harvested later, the Petit Verdot, present in a tiny quantity, brings, through its deep color, the right reflection of the aromatic complexity of the wine. Maturing later, the Cabernet Sauvignon is long overdue. The dominant grape variety, it represents at least three quarters of the final blend. The heart of the great wine, it is balanced between young plots with aromas of blackcurrant and blackberry, and older ones, ennobled by time, with silky and smooth tannins.

Grape variety / Blend: Cabernet sauvignon (~58%), merlot (~40%), cabernet franc (~2%) (variations are possible from one vintage to another)

Aging: Aged 12 months in French oak barrels

Maturity: 2010 - 2015

Food and Wine Pairing: Beef and venison

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92 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate April - 2008
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
Significantly better from bottle than it was from barrel, the 2005 Rauzan-Gassies appears to be the finest wine this estate has ever produced. Dense purple-hued with a beautiful perfume of camphor, crème de cassis, liquorice, bay leaf, and incense, it is a full-bodied, stunningly concentrated, broad, rich Margaux with lovely integrated tannins. This backward 2005 will handsomely repay cellaring. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2030+.
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92 / 100
Cellar Tracker April - 2024
Cellar Tracker
Paired with prime rib. Beautiful wine, well-integrated tannins, low acidity, lots of earth, truffle, and flint. This can easily last another 5 years. I'll make another one at the end of this year. Excellent under-the-radar producer, and I love the traditional, old-school winemaking (less fruity) with an emphasis on terroir and minimal intervention in fermentation. Very enjoyable. It served its purpose.
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92 / 100
Wine Enthusiast April -
Wine Enthusiast
Solid, dry tannins, very firm and hard, but also ripe. The wine has high extraction and very dark fruit flavours, but resists being overpowering. This could well turn out to be a very elegant wine.
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90 / 100
Tom Cannavan January - 2007
Tom Cannavan
There's some coffee here and solid blackcurrant ripeness, in a fairly svelte wine with black cherry notes on the palate and dry, assertive tannins. It finishes dusty and without the fruity sweetness I was hoping for.
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89 / 100
Falstaff May - 2006
Falstaff
Very dark ruby garnet, almost opaque core, violet rim lightening, delicate leafy undertone to the cassis note on the nose, some nougat and liquorice. Substantial on the palate, powerful, delicate bitter chocolate, good complexity, delicate citrus touch, better in the mouth than the nose promises.
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87 / 100
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider February - 2016
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
Better on the nose, with its earthy, tobacco, cedar wood, red berries and forest scented aromatics than on the medium bodied, fresh, bright, crisp and clipped palate. Stylistically classic in its nature, some tasters are going to like this wine more than others.
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14.5/20
Jancis Robinson February - 2009
Jancis Robinson
Smudgy rim. Not much nose. Very sweet and thick then greenish tinge on the finish. Caricature wine.
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Vintage Wine  2005
Classification Médoc - 2ème Cru Classé 
Region Bordeaux
Appellation Margaux
Colour Red
Volume 0.75 l
Country France
Alcohol content 13.00% vol
Château Château Rauzan Gassies
Château Rauzan Gassies
Château Rauzan Gassies
While the noble house of Chevalier de Gassies is one of the oldest in Margaux, the wine history of Château Rauzan-Gassies begins in the 18th century. This château was created by Mr Pierre DESMEZURES DE RAUZAN, a merchant and also tenant of the noble house of Latour. This position allowed him to collect seigneurial rights and increase his own assets. He bought many plots from neighbouring farmers and thus, in about twenty years, at the end of the 17th century, he created two beautiful vineyards, that of Rauzan-Gassies but also that of Pichon-Longueville, two future classified growths. Rauzan-Gassies wines have always enjoyed a certain reputation in England, thanks to Mr de Rauzan's approach of selling his harvests himself aboard a ship he chartered to the port of London. Mr de Rauzan, later Counsellor to the Parliament of Bordeaux, left his mark on the property's label in the form of wings protecting grape clusters. During the 1855 classification, RAUZAN GASSIES wines were classified as second growths. It was in 1946 that Mr Paul QUIE, a certified wine broker in Bercy (Wine trading centre for Paris and its region) whose father was already in the profession, bought this vineyard thus following numerous predecessors, such as Mr Rhoné-Péraire who, in the 19th century, had a particularly positive impact on the growth's reputation. In 1968, his son Jean Michel took over the management of the estate; he has been assisted since 1995 by Mr Jean-Louis CAMP, and since 2001 by his children, Anne-Françoise and Jean-Philippe QUIE.
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