MENTIONS ET MÉDAILLES
Le millésime 2014 sacré Médaille d’Or au concours agricole de Paris !
Les rouges 2014 sont exceptionnellement déjà en vente au Château SAINCRIT, car le millésime 2013, atypique et peu abondant est epuisé…2014, un millésime jeune mais prêt à boire …la jeunesse n’est jamais un défaut

WINE REVIEW ONLINE, AND PALATE PRESS
W. Blake Gray

The Gray Report “Bordeaux you can drink”

Florence Prud’homme
I nursed this resentment pretty deep into the week I spent in Bordeaux in September. Then I met Florence Prud’homme.
Prud’homme was an executive assistant at Marie Brizard Company, a big liqueur producer, when her husband, just 25, died of a brain aneurysm. She had two young children. She put her head down and worked. She didn’t think; she cooked and cleaned and paid the bills.
About 10 years ago, she decided, “I needed to have a life project.” A 40-acre vineyard was for sale about two miles from her parents’ house. It wasn’t in any of the famous Bordeaux appellations; she could make, at best, Bordeaux Supérieur from it. This is why there weren’t Chinese investors interested. She bought it, using most of her savings.
“In the beginning, it was very hard,” she says. “I try to increase quality, but it is very hard with little money. My father is dead now, but at the beginning he helped a lot.”
The winery that came with it — because just about every wine in France is made on-site — is ancient and ill-fitted, with huge tanks designed for additional purchased fruit, which Prud’homme doesn’t use. “I will change when I have the money,” she says.
She spends her days there with her Jack Russell terrier and an aggressive cat which just showed up one day, which the dog co-exists uneasily with. Her kids are now 30 and 20 years old, and they don’t work with her because “my children really don’t want to become winemakers because they think it’s a lot of hard work, no holidays and no money.”
Her life has been rough, but her wines are delicate and interesting. Her dry white wine, Château de Saincrit “Ephemère” Bordeaux blanc, is made from the area’s typical sweet wine blend of 70% Semillon, 25% Muscadelle and 5% Sauvignon Blanc because that’s the way the vineyard was planted when she bought it, and may have been the way a farmer named Saincrit planted it in the 1800s. It’s floral on the nose, but the Semillon is strong in the flavor; it’s more like a great white wine from Hunter Valley, Australia than what you expect from Bordeaux.
Château de Saincrit rosé, made of 100% Cabernet Franc, is such a pale yellow, you’d think it’s a white wine, and it’s lively and delicious, with fruit flavors closest to yellow plum. Her top-end Château Saincrit Bordeaux Supérieur Cuvée Vieille Vignes red wine is elegant, with pretty raspberry fruit and well-managed tannins. Did I say “top-end?” I saw it for sale at New York’s Sherry-Lehmann wine store for $15.

RETAIL EDUCATION: BORDEAUX WINES NOT OUT OF REACH
Harriet Lembeck, CWE, CSS is a prominent wine and spirits educator. She is president of the renowned Wine & Spirits Program, and revised and updated the textbook Grossman’s Guide to Wines, Beers and Spirits. She was the Director of the Wine Department for The New School University for 18 years.

Here are my favorite red AOC Bordeaux Supérieur:

Château Julian 2010 (BNP) – very floral nose
Château Le Calvaire 2009 (Cheval Quancard) – tannic, still not ready
Château de Camarsac Cuvée Prestige 2011 (Monsieur Touton) — has 1/3 Cabernet Sauvignon, grown on gravel
Domaine de Montalon 2009 (Roadhouse Wine Merchants) — good balance
Château Saincrit 2012, and Château Saincrit ‘Vieille
Vignes’ 2011 (Roadhouse Wine   Merchants) – good fruit balanced with tannin
Château Argadens 2006 (Sol Stars Wines) — traditional style, from Maison Sichel

2013 CHÂTEAU SAINCRIT CUVÉE ARGENT
15 (83) Recommended

AOC Bordeaux supérieur, as is typical of many Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur wines in this vintage, the main signature here is light tannins, low alcohol, easy to drink, fresh and fruty, Merlot dominated. The vineyard is located in Saint André de Cubzac, to the north of the Gironde. Drink 2015 – 2019.

2011 LE FOUGUE
Médaille d’argent au « Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2013 » pour la cuvée Fougue 2011 (vin rouge).

2010 LE FOUGUE
Médaille d’argent au « Concours des vins d’aquitaine de Bordeaux » pour la cuvée Fougue 2011.

WINE SPECTATOR
Chateau Saincrit Classique Bordeaux Superior 2009
89 Points – Wine Spectator, October 2011
“Rounded and ripe, with fleshy layers of plum compote, anise and blackberry preserves laced with toasty spice and sweet tobacco. Ends with a fresh, defined finish. Drink now through 2013. 224 cases imported.” -James Molesworth

“100% Merlot. No Oak. A ‘classique.’ Taste the black fruits.” -The Distributor

“The vineyard is situated in St Andre de Cubzac, north of the Gironde, directly upon the 45th parallel, this invisible line splits the hemisphere in two equal parts and expresses the balance that one feels here. On the Montalon hillside, the vineyards overlook the meandering Dordogne.” –TheWinemaker.

THE DECANTER
Le Noctambule de Chateau Saincrit, AOC Bordeaux rosé 2012, 16,5 (88) recommended.
Savoury rather than overly fruity in style, with very attractive floral aromas setting off the raspberry overtones.

ELLE MAGAZINE
ELLE Magazine : Rubrique “ Special Les femmes et le vin”
Le choix des pros sur les meilleurs crus à petits prix, Rosé, Château Saincrit 2010 « La cuvée préférée des Noctambules ! Un Bordeaux très fruité, qui a la couleur d’un rosé de provence. On le débouche à l’apéritif et on le termine au dessert. » Juin 2011

LA REVUE DES VINS DE FRANCE,
– Château Saincrit, Nez au fruit expressif, bouche mûre, ample, avec un boisée élégant. juin 2006

– Château Saincrit, Le bordeaux supérieur Fougue 2010 du château Saincrit est à la fois fruité et puissant, bien équilibré. 2013

LE POINT
– Saincrit Fougue, Fruits rouges, boisé présent qui ajoute des touches vanillées, bouches vive, tendue, fraîche, serrée en finale, vin accrocheur. Mai 2013

GAULT&MILLAU
– Château Saincrit rosé, Étincelant, il se sépare d’une pellure d’oignon sintillante. Il laisse parler les notes de fruits jaunes, d’amande, de réglisse, d’orange sanguine. La bouche est superbe mi-juteuse, d’un fruit qui s’exprime également dans le confit mi-ostentatoire tramé amicalement. Été 2012- Un vin de bonne densité, assez compact qui mérite un ou deux ans de garde. 2008

LE GUIDE HACHETTE DES VINS 2008
– Château Saincrit, Licorne Cuivre 2005, Le boisée vanillé se marie bien avec les fruits mûrs dans ce 2005 tout au long de la dégustation. Après une attaque pleine de finesse, le vin laisse une impression de suavité enveloppante, puis se prolonge durablement en finale. Déjà près à rejoindre la table.

LE GUIDE HACHETTE DES VINS 2010
– Château Saincrit, cuvée cuivre élévé en fût de chêne 2007, Ce vin élévé 12 mois en fût de chêne, se présente dans une robe fraîche couleur framboise, malgrès quelques notes d’évolution, le nez ne manque pas de charme avec ses parfums de pruneau et de tabac. De la souplesse et du volume en bouche : l’ensemble est équilibré et à servir sans tarder.

SOMMELIERS INTERNATIONAL
– Château Saincrit, Bordeaux Supérieur 2005 élevé en fut de chaîne. C’est un bon vin à déguster entre amis, lors d’un piqu- nique de chasse, sur des terrines ou une entrecôte. 2007 – Kochen magazine (magazine de vins Allemand) 2011

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