Château Fleur Haut Gaussens

“This wine tunes the pitch in the appellation. Discreet nose and great freshness since the entry. Tannins are tight and delicate. The finish is racy. A great wine.”

Bordeaux supérieur: wine noted between 17,5 and 15,5 /20

“Black fruits, round and unctuous mouth, quite simple but well done, supple ripe Merlot, elaborate wine.”

Bordeaux Supérieur – O = 2011 – G = 7 years – 14/20

“For a few years now, the estate has been producing the archetype of a great Bordeaux Supérieur: enjoyable, fruity and always very pleasantly woody. Being easily on sale in supermarkets besides at very affordable prices make these wines a great opportunity. It is recommended to drink them on the fruit during the first three years. In great vintage however these wines can be kept a bit longer. Nice vintage 2008 allying ripe fruit and nicely extracted tannins.”

Red wine: 30 hectares. Merlot 90%, Cabernet franc 5%, Cabernet-sauvignon 5%.
Average production : 200 000 bt/year
Bordeaux Supérieur 2008 Red – 15,5/20

“The blend is marked by the Merlot in this wine born in the chalky-clayed Fronsac terroir. The garnet red color makes its dark purple reflections glitter in front of the eyes of tasters delighted with the bouquet’s complexity in which candied red berries join with pleasure coffee and toffee notes. The mouth is quite as much generous, offering volume, fat and powerful tannins. A wine dedicated to a great future. To be kept in cellar for 3 years.”

Red wine: 30 hectares. Merlot: 90%, Cabernet franc: 5%, Cabernet-sauvignon: 5%. Average production: 200 000 bt/year
Bordeaux Supérieur 2008 Red – **

“For about 5 years, this vineyard located near Fronsac has charmed by its generous and greedy wines with a blend of expressive fruit and toasted wood. This powerful and steady-in-success Bordeaux offers vintage 2008 a large aromatic complexity, a solid, thick, fruity and long mouth.”

Bordeaux Supérieur 2008 Red – 2010 to 2014 – 14,5/20

“As always at its young stage, Hervé Lhuillier’s wine shows vigour and asserts itself with marked tannins on the finish. It will fade after a complete cellaring year and the whole will then come in a certain complexity and an attractive roundness. The finish is revived by an acidity touch brought by the limestone of this nice terroir.”

Red wine: 30 hectares. Merlot: 90%, Cabernet franc: 5%, Cabernet-sauvignon: 5%. Average production: 200 000 bt/year
Bordeaux Supérieur 2008 Red – 16,5/20

“Exciting nose, real explosion of red berries, especially cherry. Fresh and cheerful entry followed by a little set back though very well balanced mouth. Finish of medium concentration and round tannins.”

Area: 30 hectares. Terroir: clay-limestone. Blend: 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet sauvignon and 5% Cabernet franc. Maturation: 50% in vat and 50% in barrels of diverse ages

Bordeaux Supérieur 2008 Red – Gold Medal

“For a few years now, the estate has been producing the archetype of a great Bordeaux Supérieur: enjoyable, fruity and always very pleasantly oaked. Easily available in supermarkets at a very affordable price, these wines are a great opportunity. It is recommended to drink them on the fruit during the first three years. However In great vintages these wines can be cellared for longer.(…) 2009 vintage is still more successful, with a ripe concentrated substance. It will be one of the best vintage of this estate and can easily be cellared for 5 years. This vintage is not to be missed”

Red: 30 hectares Merlot (90%), Cabernet Franc (5%), Cabernet Sauvignon (5%). Average production: 200,000 bt/year
Bordeaux Superieur 2009 Red – 16,5/20

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“Lacteous nose opens up to blueberry. This wine appears dense in mouth with a little maturing note. Black
fruits begin to settle. As every year, it will make a remarkable value for money. What a blessing!”

Bordeaux Superieur 2009 Red – 14

“For about 5 years now, this vineyard located near Fronsac has charmed by its generous and unctuous wines
with a blend of expressive fruit and toasted oak. A great success. Splendid complex matured nose, great
powerful fruity mouth, harmonious tannins, freshness and an exceptional structure. This is a wine to be waited for.”

Bordeaux Superieur 2009 Red – 16,5

Bordeaux Superieur – O = 2013 – G = 6 years – 14,5

“Wonderful open nose with ripe black fruit and toasted liquorice oak aromas. Powerful gorgeous fruity
mouth. An imposing but harmonious structure, freshness and a long length. Good ageing potential”

Bordeaux Superieur 2009 Red – TENOR OF THE YEAR

“Red fruits aromas. The oak is more matured than in April. On the palate, the wine is powerful, opulent, concentrated and dense with a good backbone. A bottle dedicated to a nice future. A little alcohol.”

Bordeaux Superieur 2009 Red – 15

“This wine is a regular guest of our guide. In every new vintage, it becomes more fine and precise. In 2009 vintage, it shows intensity, ripeness and exposes a candied touch in its aromas. This fleshy velvety red wine is slender thanks to a good tightness.”

Bordeaux Superieur 2009 Red – 15

Bordeaux Superieur 2009 Red – Silver Medal

“This is packed with just the right amount of tannins and dark fruits. It has weight, structure and a blackberry note. It needs to age at least five years for the full character to emerge.”
Château Fleur Haut Gaussens – 90pts Wine Enthusiast

Gold Medal – Concours Général Agricole de Paris 2010
TERRE Chateau Fleur Haut Gaussens

“Dark plums wine with spicy savoury character. Coffee and cedary tobacco notes. Modern and elegant”
Silver medal – International Wine Challenge 2014
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Bronze medal – Decanter World Wine Awards 2014
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Silver medal – Los Angeles International Wine Competition 2014
TERRE Chateau Fleur Haut Gaussens

“For a few year now, the estate has been producing the archetype of a great Bordeaux Supérieur : enjoyable, fruity and always very pleasantly woody. Being easily on sale in supermarkets besides at very affordable prices make these wines a great opportunity. It is recommanded to drink them on the fruit during the first three years, inspite of this vintage 2010, which can be keeping for a long time. That’s why this vintage wins a star in this area.
(…) This vintage 2010 is very delicious, mineral, with a precise woody. Most important is its tannic structure. Definitely are of the best wines produced by Hervé LHUILLIER.” 
Red wine : 30 hectares. Merlot 90 %, Cabernet-Franc 5 %, Cabernet-Sauvignon 5 %. Average production : 200 000 bottles/year
Bordeaux Superieur 2010 Red – 17*

“Wine with a rich woody, and a little bit candied flavours. A beautiful intensity, a large coolness and retires tannins, which gives this beautiful velvety red.”

Bordeaux supérieur : Exceptional success.

“Perfectionist, the proprietor Hervé LHUILLIER signs with this 2010 a fruity and elegant wine, which is very pleasant to discover. With its Bordeaux designation reference we can often find it in supermarkets, but its price starts to turn up given its success. Again a reason to buy it first.”

Bordeaux supérieur : A wine of quality esay to drink

“This family estate of 30 ha proposes a cuvée dominated by Merlot (80%), and assisted by the both Cavernet.
The nose charms thanks its sweet scent of the fruits, liquorice and gingerbread. The mouth appears long,
smooth and round, tannins are velvety and the flavours of fryuts with alcohol ang generous prunes. An harmonious set that we will drink in one on two years on a cheese from the Pyrenees.””

Bordeaux supérieur

“Intensive nose of blackberries and of liquoriced woody, smocked and videt notes, dense and deep mouth
with fruit, carefully anf harmonious tannins. A lot of potential.”

Bordeaux supérieur

“It’s the perfect red wine to host. Its label is simple with a chic designation and an elegant name. Inside we can find a delicious viceyard, in fact Bordeaux Supérieur keeps its chlorophyll, coffee and blackberries flavour.
To drink with the three mixed meats of a baeckeofe (lamb, bullock and veal).”

Bordeaux Superieur 2010 Red – 16/20

Competitive exam of Bordeaux with wines from Aquitaine region – Bordeaux Superieur 2010 Red – Silver medal

Bordeaux Superieur 2010 Red – 88

Silver medal – Los Angeles International Wine Competition 2014

“The Merlot grape variety is predominantly growing on the clay-limestone soil and dominates this wine
blended with a hint of both cabernets. The color is dense and the nose displays black fruits and toasted
coffee aromas due to the oak ageing leading to a pleasant mouth. This is confirmed on the attack. Some
tannin gives this 2011 a good structure but will need two to three years cellaring to become nicely integrated.” 

Bordeaux supérieur

“Delicate peppery and red fruits flavours with a hint of green pepper. Generous on the palate with some
slightly firm tannin complemented by a lively mouth-feel.””

Bordeaux supérieur Red : 14/20

“Chocolate and black fruit aromas with a round and ripe mouth-feel, round tannins, supple unctuous well
made wine without too much extraction.”

Bordeaux Superieur 2011 Red – 15/20

“Lightly smoked due to barrel ageing. A beautiful classic fruity and smoky Bordeaux style.”

Bordeaux supérieur : Réussites

“We recommend that you drink it on the fruit during the three first years apart from outstanding vintage such as 2010 when the wine has a great ageing potential.”

Red : 30 hectares. Merlot 90%, Cabernet franc 5%, Cabernet-sauvignon 5%.
Bordeaux Superieur 2011 Red – 15/20

TERRE Château Fleur Haut Gaussens

Bordeaux Superieur 2011 Red – 15,5/20

Commended International Wine Challenge 2014

Commended Decanter World Wine Awards 2014

Silver medal – Los Angeles International Wine Competition 2014

Despite a short maturation period, the oak dominates with a tar and spicy character. The fruit develops well. Generous and luscious with a good tannic structure, the palate is well balanced. 2015/2019

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens

Clean fruitiness, ripe black fruits, velvety, oaked aged, smokey aromas, still rough, good wine that must age.

O= 2015 G= 6 years

Score : 14.5/15

Chateau Fleur Haut Gaussens

N° 572 June 2013

A very pleasant oak character well integrated with some fine tannins. A well balanced and long lasting fruit that is already pleasant.

Bordeaux supérieur : Exceptionnal

Chateau Fleur Haut Gaussens

GUIDE 2014

 A beautiful explosion of fruit. Pleasantly oaked and finely toasted. Fresh on the palate.

Score : 15.5pts

Chateau Fleur Haut Gaussens

86pts – 89pts

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89pts

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Château Fleur Haut Gaussens “Terres d’Argile”

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85 pts Neal Martin for www.eRobertParker.com

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Château Fleur Haut Gaussens 2014

“Lots of complex dark fruit flavours and good use of oak. A little firm and tannic on the finish, making this an excellent food wine”

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15.5/16.5 pts

Complete and dense wine with a long finish. Beautiful style with lots of personnality and mineral hint. Excellent.

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens Malbec La Viminière

16.5/17.5pts

Outstanding wine with a beautiful intensity. The Malbec displays great flavours without any exageration. Out of the box & fresh resulting from a short maceration, it leads to a long lingering finish.

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens Malbec “La Viminière” 2015

Note : 88/90 pts

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens 2015

Note : 88 pts

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens Malbec “La Viminière” 2015

Note : 17 pts Favorit 

“This new 100% Malbec wine issued from the estate’s south facing hilltops is a real flavour quake! Made from full bunches of grappes, it shows peony and black fruit flavours on the palate an some soft tannins”

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens 2015

Note : 16 pts

“This 2015 is the best of talented winemaker Hervé Lhuillier! Spicy with fine peppery notes, an outstanding colour and perfect oak balance, it is a magnificent wine ! “

“When he took over the estate in 1996, Hervé Lhuillier asked Olivier Dauga for advice. Since, the duet works wonders whether it is a good or bad vintage. In 2015 as prices generally go up, it is the wine to go for : a Bordeaux with velvety tannins, soft and racy in the same time, to be released in a few months.”

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens 2015

Note : 91 points

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Silver Medal

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens Malbec “La Viminière” 2015

Note : 90 points Editor’s Choice

                                                   This 100% Malbec from Hervè Lhuillier's young 2.5-acre parcel is a spicy ripe wine that reflects the warmth of the vintage. Great tannins and bold fruitiness are well blended for a wine that has good potential.

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens 2015
Note : 88 points

                                                                With the potential of a good structure and fruit, this is a warm ripe wine that has concentration and dense black fruits. The acidity at the end gives it a lift.

                                                                                               This estate produces the archetype of good wine in Bordeaux Supérieur: gourmand, fruity and always very pleasantly wooded.

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens 2016

Note : 15.5

                                                                                                                    "amazing density, acidity and tight tannin make a beautiful bottle."

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens  Malbec “La Viminière” 2016

Note : 15

                                                                                                          "A nose of wild fruit and a mouth built around a tannic structure supported but of quality"

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens Cabernet Franc “La Bergeronnette” 2016

Note : 14.5

                                                                                                                           "Power of the vintage and ambition of the maturing"

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens Grand Vin 2016

Note 15.5

                                                                                                         "The Grand Vin displays its ambition, with a very rich nose, an intense fruit, and a more extracted mouth.

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens 2016

Note : 14.5/20

This vintage  seduced by its generous wines, expressive fruit  well associated with a toasted oak.

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens Malbec “La Viminière 2016

Note : 15/20

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens Cabernet Franc La Bergeronnette 2016

Note : 15/20

The wines that surprised us: “Mostly composed of Cabernet Franc, this harmonious and fresh vintage impresses with its brilliance and depth.”

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens 2016

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens CABERNET FRANC La Bergeronnette 2016

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens MALBEC “La Viminière” 2016

Château Fleur Haut Gaussens GRAND VIN 2016

Silver Medal