Château LE PIN 2021

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Yves Beck 95-98 points www.yvesbeck.wine

Dégusté le 20.04.2022 par Yves Beck

Très bonne année pour le Pin grâce aux sols de graves qui fournissent de la tension. Le bouquet “pinote” un peu et se distingue par sa fraîcheur, sa finesse et ses nuances épicées. Le vin et fin, subtil, grâcieux, élégant et parfaitement équilibré. C’est bien la tension et la finesse qui font sa richesse. Très belle intensité fruitée en fin de bouche avec la subtilité et la fraîcheur déjà constatées au nez. Un très grand Le Pin, frais et prêt à traverser quelques décennies.  2027-2051  

Jean-Marc Quarin 95 www.quarin.com
Couleur sombre, intense et belle. Nez très aromatique, fin, au fruité pur et mûr, évoluant crémeux dans le verre. En bouche, c’est juste un nuage qui fond sur le palais, d’une grande délicatesse de sève. Belle finale subtile, délicieuse et sèveuse. Irrésistible. 100 % merlot. Degré d’alcool : 13°4 – pH : 3,6. Rendement : 35 hl/ha.

Neal Martin 94-96 points www.vinous.com
The 2021 Le Pin was picked from 25 September to 4 October at a respectable 35hL/ha. Jacques Thienpont remarked how Alexandre and Guillaume Thienpont had tended the vineyard so well throughout the year and for the first time they oversaw the vinification and the current élevage. It has a beautifully-defined bouquet, less ostentatious than recent vintages, unfurling with quite mineral-rich red and black fruit. The palate follows in a similar vein, a Le Pin imbued with a sense of athleticism, no excess fat, framed by fine tannins and a laser-focused finish. The terroir really shines through in 2021 perhaps more than in other feted vintages. Wonderful. This has 13.4% alcohol.

Antonio Galloni 94-96 points www.vinous.com
The 2021 Le Pin is a delicate, refined wine that is still coming together in barrel. Bright saline accents and vivid floral aromatics lend energy to a core of red-fleshed fruit. The 75% new oak is expertly judged. Production is down quite a bit, about 14 barrels instead of the more typical 20 or so. The 2021 is a somewhat unusual, lighter style of Le Pin. I can’t wait to see how it ages.

William Kelley 94-97 points www.erobertparker.com
I tasted the 2021 Le Pin several times this spring, and on every occasion the wine showed brilliantly. Wafting from the glass with aromas of dark berries, plums, exotic spices, vine smoke and carnal nuances, it’s medium to full-bodied, sumptuous and enveloping, with a velvety attack, supple tannins and a long, penetrating finish. Seamless and impressively concentrated, it demonstrates how precocious, well-drained sites such as Le Pin came into their own in the 2021 growing season. As usual, it’s 100% Merlot, and this year it checks in at 13.4% alcohol.

Georgina Hindle 94 points  www.decanter.com (at Bordeaux, 01 Apr 2022)
Red cherries and strawberries alongside roses, peonies and smoked earth on the nose. Immediately so smooth, silky in the mouth with bright and searing strawberry and red cherry flavours. A delicate style on show, less plush and plump, more finessed and defined. Minerality shows through clearly with the high-toned fruit framed by just-robust tannins at this point giving a firmness to the overall structure. It has freshness and a sense of underlying power with a menthol backbone and touches of liquorice and black pepper. Long flavour and an appealing chalky finish. Drinking Window 2027 – 2046