2011 Château Rauzan-Ségla, Margaux, Bordeaux

Red • Dry • Medium Bodied

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Code: 20110303000001014600

Description

This is almost as stylish as Coco Chanel herself. The ever-frank John Kolasa has really worked wonders this vintage, and it pushes Ch. Palmer and Ch. Margaux for top honours. Perfumed red currant fruit jumps straight out of the glass, with a darker, earthier forest fruit edge following on. A grainy, floral lift comes through and really adds to the aromatic pyrotechnics here! Full, fresh and rounded with the sweetness of fruit, you really feel the texture and fresh crunch in the mouth. This is considered and focused with great length. It is super impressive this year.

Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour

Red
Sweetness

Dry
Vintage

2011
Alcohol

13.5%
Body

Medium Bodied
Producer

Château Rauzan-Ségla

Critics reviews

James Molesworth

89-92/100

Modern style, with a good fleshy feel and a nice smoky edge to the currant, fig and melted licorice notes. Stays velvety through the finish, with the flavors melding nicely.
Wine Spectator&39;s 2011 Top-Scoring Red Bordeaux

James Molesworth, WineSpectator.com (April 2012)

Jancis Robinson MW

17.5/20

Tasted blind. Deep crimson. Slightly one-dimensional nose. Solid, rather impenetrable. Chunky. Not that gracious. Just a bit monolithic. But lots of life there.

Drink 2023 - 2039

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (October 2021)

Neal Martin

93/100

The 2011 Rauzan-Ségla has a ripe, flesh, red plum, hoisin and sandalwood-scented bouquet, quite showy and forward, willing to give sensory pleasure now, not tomorrow. The palate is beautifully balanced, fresh and saline with fine grain tannins. Linear, but there is tension here that is missing in some of the other 2011 Margaux wines. Persistent on the finish - this is excellent. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting.

Drink 2022 - 2040

Neal Martin, Vinous.com (September 2021)

Robert Parker

93/100

The grand vin, the 2011 Rauzan Segla, is a beauty. Aromas of spring flowers, graphite, creme de cassis and kirsch jump from the glass of this dense purple-colored 2011. Lots of nobility, complexity and richness characterize a wine that could be mistaken for a first-growth in 2011. This medium to full-bodied, concentrated, gorgeously pure, well-balanced beauty should be forgotten for 2-4 years and drunk over the following 15-20.

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (April 2014)