Château Pipeau 2008, Ac St émilion Grand Cru
Bordeaux (Merlot Based)
Bordeaux, France
$29.00 (138131)
Critic Reviews (2)
An ambitious, extracted, ripe and generously oaked wine for the vintage, Pipeau's 2008 offers tight structure, firm...
This has very generous, sweet almost sensuous nose loaded with new oak spice, cedar and mocha, atop blackberry fruit...
Community Reviews (2)
Earthy, woody, smoky, with a very very nice finish. I wish it would linger and linger. Excellent red. Complex, reveals interesting tastes and nose as it comes down to room temperature and as it breathes. Seems to get real smoky after it breathes for a while. Tasted December 2011.
Smoky, oaky, tannic, yet a pleasure with a mid-week steak.
Definitely would suggest letting it sit for a few years, although the muted fruit makes me wonder....
OK value.