Vieux Chateau Mazerat 2019

St Emilion, Grand Cru

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Tasting Notes
The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat might be my favorite wine in the lineup from Jonathan Maltus, and it's just a stunning wine that shows the classic, elegant style of the vintage beautifully. Cassis, black cherries, loamy earth, chalky mineral, and dried flower notes all emerge from the glass, and this beauty is medium to full -bodied, has flawless balance, plenty of silky tannins, and a great, great finish. It's stunning stuff that will benefit from 5-7 years of bottle age and cruise for 25-30 years in cold cellars. Score: 98 Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Maturity: 2027-2052 11 April 2022
I continue to love the Vieux Château Mazerat from Maltus, and the 2019 is another beautiful wine in the making, with beautiful ripeness in its blackcurrants, roasted herbs, chocolate, unsmoked tobacco, and damp earth-like aromas and flavors. Rich, full-bodied, and gorgeous on the palate, it has an incredibly seamless texture paired with plenty of opulence and texture as well as minerality on the finish. It's a gem of a wine. Score: 96 - 98 Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com 11 June 2020
Aromas of black cherries, currants, dark chocolate and creamy new oak, the 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat is medium to full-bodied, rich and chunky, with a ripe core of fruit, lively acids and plenty of chewy tannin that marks it out as one of the less polished, blockier wines in the Maltus portfolio. It will merit a bit of patience. Score: 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2025 - 2045 07 April 2022
The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat has managed to lose that scintilla of sur-maturité on the nose, where the very expressive Cabernet Franc imparts touches of bell pepper and light earthy aromas, all well defined. The balanced palate delivers fine tannins and a mixture of red and black fruit. There is good substance and gentle grip on the persistent finish, which lingers in the mouth. Excellent. Score: 93 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2024 - 2038 01 February 2022
The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat, from the Jonathan Maltus stable, offers baked cherries, fresh dates and melted tar on the nose that suggests just a little sur-maturité compared to recent vintages. The palate is actually better than the nose with lithe tannins and nicely detailed brambly red fruit intermixed with white pepper and sage. The finish shows the elegance that I come to expect from this cru. Despite the aromatics revealing too much exuberance, I will give this the benefit of the doubt. Score: 91 - 93 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2023-2036 16 June 2020
The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat, from the Jonathan Maltus stable, offers baked cherries, fresh dates and melted tar on the nose that suggests just a little sur-maturité compared to recent vintages. The palate is actually better than the nose with lithe tannins and nicely detailed brambly red fruit intermixed with white pepper and sage. The finish shows the elegance that I come to expect from this cru. Despite the aromatics revealing too much exuberance, I will give this the benefit of the doubt. Score: 91 - 93 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2023-2036 01 June 2020
The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat is a very good wine that bridges the gap between the entry level Teyssier and the wines at the upper end of the Maltus range. Élevage has tamed some of the raw power that was present in the barrel sample, which is a good thing. There is plenty of richness, as there is in all the wines, but today Vieux Château Mazerat comes across as quite supple and forward. Succulent dark cherry, plum, leather, licorice and chocolate build into the sumptuous finish. Score: 93 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2024 - 2034 01 February 2022
The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat is a dark, powerful wine. Black cherry, bittersweet chocolate, leather, licorice and spice add to a real feeling of weight and gravitas that also comes through in the wine's overall feel. The 2019 is a decidedly somber Saint-Émilion. These Cabernet Franc, planted in 1947 on clay over limestone add so much character. Today, the tannins are quite incisive as well. Patience is key. Here, too, there is so much to look forward to. I won't be surprised if the 2019 is even better from bottle, as Jonathan Maltus' wines often are.Jonathan Maltus' 2019s are superb across the board. I imagine many readers will be drawn to the micro-cuvées, Le Carré, Le Dôme and Les Astéries, in particular, and right so. In my view, though the most impressive wine in the lineup is Teyssier because of its quality at a production level that is very hard to achieve. The growing season was hot, as it was everywhere, with rain episodes in July, August and September that helped balance things out. Frost was an issue in some of the lower-lying parcels that typically inform Teyssier and Laforge. More importantly, the decision to give the wines a bit more energy while retaining all of the richness readers have come to expect yields a range of wines that really stand out in 2019. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux 01 June 2020
This opens with tons of liqourice and taut black fruits. Still as knitted down as it was En Primeur, with floral notes and a core of saline minerality, this will need a good seven to eight years in bottle before it really starts to open up, but it is clearly an exceptional, carefully crafted wine that will reward patience. 80% new oak. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2027-2042 26 January 2022
Quite different in feel and weight than the others in the Maltus range, this is a little fresher, with higher Cabernet Franc that gives it a sense of reserve. Iris notes curling around the dark fruit, and a tannic frame that demands a good few years in bottle. As it unrolls in the glass glass you see the complexity and tight blueberry and blackberry fruits. 3.76pH. 80% new oak. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Decanter.com Maturity: 2026 - 2042 22 May 2020
A perfumed nose of cherries, plums, violets, lemons, cedar and oak spice. Full-bodied with fine-grained tannins. Dark and creamy, with excellent structure and a lively finish. Drink from 2024. Score: 94 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2024+ 17 January 2022
Intense aromas of fresh mushrooms and dark fruit. Some pine needles and black fruit, too. Hint of smoky wood. It’s full-bodied and chewy, yet polished. Long finish. Score: 94 - 95 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com 03 June 2020
Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, the 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat delivers pronounced, purely expressed notes of ripe black plums, black raspberries and boysenberries with suggestions of cedar, chocolate box, camphor and pencil lead plus a touch of cumin seed. The medium to full-bodied palate has a sturdy frame of grainy tannins and oodles of freshness supporting the black fruit layers, finishing long and mineral laced. Vieux Château Mazerat is from the JCP Maltus portfolio of skillfully crafted Saint-Émilion wines. Neil White is the head winemaker, and Thomas Duclos is a consultant here. This vineyard is bordered by Château Canon on three sides and by Angélus on the fourth side. It includes a parcel of Cabernet Franc that was planted in 1947 on clay over limestone. Score: 92 - 94 Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 18 June 2020

Tasting Notes

The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat might be my favorite wine in the lineup from Jonathan Maltus, and it's just a stunning wine that shows the classic, elegant style of the vintage beautifully. Cassis, black cherries, loamy earth, chalky mineral, and dried flower notes all emerge from the glass, and this beauty is medium to full -bodied, has flawless balance, plenty of silky tannins, and a great, great finish. It's stunning stuff that will benefit from 5-7 years of bottle age and cruise for 25-30 years in cold cellars.

Score: 98

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Maturity: 2027-2052 11 April 2022

I continue to love the Vieux Château Mazerat from Maltus, and the 2019 is another beautiful wine in the making, with beautiful ripeness in its blackcurrants, roasted herbs, chocolate, unsmoked tobacco, and damp earth-like aromas and flavors. Rich, full-bodied, and gorgeous on the palate, it has an incredibly seamless texture paired with plenty of opulence and texture as well as minerality on the finish. It's a gem of a wine.

Score: 96 - 98

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com 11 June 2020

Aromas of black cherries, currants, dark chocolate and creamy new oak, the 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat is medium to full-bodied, rich and chunky, with a ripe core of fruit, lively acids and plenty of chewy tannin that marks it out as one of the less polished, blockier wines in the Maltus portfolio. It will merit a bit of patience.

Score: 91

William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2025 - 2045 07 April 2022

The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat has managed to lose that scintilla of sur-maturité on the nose, where the very expressive Cabernet Franc imparts touches of bell pepper and light earthy aromas, all well defined. The balanced palate delivers fine tannins and a mixture of red and black fruit. There is good substance and gentle grip on the persistent finish, which lingers in the mouth. Excellent.

Score: 93

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2024 - 2038 01 February 2022

The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat, from the Jonathan Maltus stable, offers baked cherries, fresh dates and melted tar on the nose that suggests just a little sur-maturité compared to recent vintages. The palate is actually better than the nose with lithe tannins and nicely detailed brambly red fruit intermixed with white pepper and sage. The finish shows the elegance that I come to expect from this cru. Despite the aromatics revealing too much exuberance, I will give this the benefit of the doubt.

Score: 91 - 93

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2023-2036 16 June 2020

Score: 91 - 93

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2023-2036 01 June 2020

The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat is a very good wine that bridges the gap between the entry level Teyssier and the wines at the upper end of the Maltus range. Élevage has tamed some of the raw power that was present in the barrel sample, which is a good thing. There is plenty of richness, as there is in all the wines, but today Vieux Château Mazerat comes across as quite supple and forward. Succulent dark cherry, plum, leather, licorice and chocolate build into the sumptuous finish.

Score: 93

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2024 - 2034 01 February 2022

The 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat is a dark, powerful wine. Black cherry, bittersweet chocolate, leather, licorice and spice add to a real feeling of weight and gravitas that also comes through in the wine's overall feel. The 2019 is a decidedly somber Saint-Émilion. These Cabernet Franc, planted in 1947 on clay over limestone add so much character. Today, the tannins are quite incisive as well. Patience is key. Here, too, there is so much to look forward to. I won't be surprised if the 2019 is even better from bottle, as Jonathan Maltus' wines often are.Jonathan Maltus' 2019s are superb across the board. I imagine many readers will be drawn to the micro-cuvées, Le Carré, Le Dôme and Les Astéries, in particular, and right so. In my view, though the most impressive wine in the lineup is Teyssier because of its quality at a production level that is very hard to achieve. The growing season was hot, as it was everywhere, with rain episodes in July, August and September that helped balance things out. Frost was an issue in some of the lower-lying parcels that typically inform Teyssier and Laforge. More importantly, the decision to give the wines a bit more energy while retaining all of the richness readers have come to expect yields a range of wines that really stand out in 2019.

Score: 91 - 93

Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux 01 June 2020

This opens with tons of liqourice and taut black fruits. Still as knitted down as it was En Primeur, with floral notes and a core of saline minerality, this will need a good seven to eight years in bottle before it really starts to open up, but it is clearly an exceptional, carefully crafted wine that will reward patience. 80% new oak.

Score: 95

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2027-2042 26 January 2022

Quite different in feel and weight than the others in the Maltus range, this is a little fresher, with higher Cabernet Franc that gives it a sense of reserve. Iris notes curling around the dark fruit, and a tannic frame that demands a good few years in bottle. As it unrolls in the glass glass you see the complexity and tight blueberry and blackberry fruits. 3.76pH. 80% new oak.

Score: 95

Jane Anson, Decanter.com Maturity: 2026 - 2042 22 May 2020

A perfumed nose of cherries, plums, violets, lemons, cedar and oak spice. Full-bodied with fine-grained tannins. Dark and creamy, with excellent structure and a lively finish. Drink from 2024.

Score: 94

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2024+ 17 January 2022

Intense aromas of fresh mushrooms and dark fruit. Some pine needles and black fruit, too. Hint of smoky wood. It’s full-bodied and chewy, yet polished. Long finish.

Score: 94 - 95

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com 03 June 2020

Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, the 2019 Vieux Château Mazerat delivers pronounced, purely expressed notes of ripe black plums, black raspberries and boysenberries with suggestions of cedar, chocolate box, camphor and pencil lead plus a touch of cumin seed. The medium to full-bodied palate has a sturdy frame of grainy tannins and oodles of freshness supporting the black fruit layers, finishing long and mineral laced. Vieux Château Mazerat is from the JCP Maltus portfolio of skillfully crafted Saint-Émilion wines. Neil White is the head winemaker, and Thomas Duclos is a consultant here. This vineyard is bordered by Château Canon on three sides and by Angélus on the fourth side. It includes a parcel of Cabernet Franc that was planted in 1947 on clay over limestone.

Score: 92 - 94

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 18 June 2020

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