Description
2016 Le Garage de Papa is a Bordeaux red blend from the Margaux region, created by Pierre Raoux, a 5th-generation winegrower. This wine showcases the power and promise of the excellent 2016 vintage, with aromatic notes of pressed violets, lilac, sweet grilled herbs, black cherries, hoisin plum sauce, black currants, mulberries, and blueberry crumble. On the palate, it is medium to full-bodied with rich, velvety texture and flavors of black currant and black cherry, complemented by dense tannins. The wine is elegant, balanced, and fresh, with a long, concentrated finish. It’s drinking beautifully now and will evolve for another 8-10+ years.
Reviews
Greg Sherwood 94
The 2016 Le Garage de Papa red blend shows all the power, pedigree and promise of a great Bordeaux vintage, and 2016 was certainly that. The aromatics are opulent and hedonistic boasting perfumed notes of pressed violets, lilac, sweet grilled herbs, warm black cherries, hoisin plum sauce, savoury black currants and hints of mulberries and blueberry crumble. Impressively complex on the palate, the wine has an attractive medium to full-bodied weight and a texture that is rich and velvety, plush and creamy with saline black currant and black cherry fruits over dense sweet chalky tannins. Wonderfully elegant in the mouth with a seamless freshness and balance leading to a long, mouth coating concentration on the finish. Some very accomplished winemaking on display here for a wine that is drinking fabulously well now but that will undoubtedly evolve beneficially in bottle for another 8 to 10+ years. Claret drinkers make space in your cellar! [Greg Sherwood, 10/06/2024]
Producer Profile
Pierre Raoux is the son of Philippe Raoux, the owner of Château d’Arsac in Margaux. Pierre has been making garage wines in Saint-Emilion since the early 1980s. These rare wines, of great quality, require meticulous work in the vineyard (plot selection, severe pruning, yield control, hand harvesting) as well as in the cellar. They sometimes compete with the greatest at very affordable prices!
Every year, Le Garage de Papa offers you a Made in Médoc micro-cuvée of 5,000 numbered bottles.
This cuvée also has the particularity of having been put on the market at the moment of its optimal consumption, at its best maturity. Because the bottles must be drunk…
Papa’s Garage meets the expectations of the 21st century consumer who drinks less wine, but better quality: a rare wine sold for less than a Grand Cru Classé.
