This Is my favorite Merlot! A little pricey but worth it for a great dinner. One of the best berdeaux I've ever had. Amazing notes of dark current, black cherries, and Tabaco leaves, and high acidity. Wines like this turn good dinners into great dinners. — 10 years ago
Bright clean nose with hints of pineapples. Really great wine — 9 years ago
A delicious wine that should show even more in the next few years. With notes of kirsch and black currant, this soft, but complex wine is delicious. It has slight herbaceous undertones that round out the fruit forwardness. Probably one of the better Chat. Du Papes from this vintage. — 10 years ago
Very lush and superb! — 12 years ago
This is a silkier, more elegant vintage of the Chapelle, at least relative to the 2010, which was really in my zone, as well as the 2009, which I found over-the-top, but in both cases I think there was more stuffing there than here. This would've shown better if I'd opened it with white meat or even fish or something else where a lightweight presence and loose-knit structure is called for. It's an excellent wine in that idiom but lacks some of the solidity and grip it has offered in other years. It's not imbalanced at all, and the trademark stony mineral flavors are still here, it's just a slimmer version of its usual self. — 10 years ago
And on the 3rd day it showed the best — 10 years ago
Young but opened nicely. Hints of cocoa and vanilla along with the nice earthy flavors of a Bordeaux. would buy — 12 years ago
Ove Gustafsson
Ripe berries, blue- and strawberries with tannins to supply a lattice for the seductive flavours. Elegant acidity. — 9 years ago