Chateau Gloria - St. Julien 2010

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Henri Martin creator of Château Gloria, was the grandson of the cellarmaster at Château Gruaud-Larose and son of a cooper in the village of Beychevelle. In the early 1940s, Henri Martin (who had started out a cooper like his father), turned his attention to viticulture. His first purchase was 6,000 vines in Saint-Julien alongside the family home in 1939. This was the beginning of what would later become Château Gloria, a patchwork of various plots scattered among classified growth vineyards. This was the work of his life.

Today, Françoise (his daughter) and Jean-Louis Triaud (his son-inlaw), assisted by their children, Vanessa and Jean, continue the family tradition with passion.

The 2010 Gloria has a very attractive and quite intense bouquet with a surfeit of blackberry and wild strawberry scents, cedar and light seaweed coming through with aeration. The palate is very well balanced with supple but firm tannins framing the pure blackberry and bilberry fruit, laced with black pepper and clove. Very complex, very focused and very precise on the finish, this is an outstanding 2010 Saint-Julien. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners 10-Year On Bordeaux horizontal. 

 

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Price: $96.99

In Mixed Case: $82.44

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Producer	Chateau Gloria
Country	France
Region	Bordeaux
Subregion	Saint Julien
Varietal	Bordeaux Blend
Vintage	2010
Sku	07838
Size	750ml