Reviews & Ratings

2021 VGS Chateau Potelle Red Blends or Varietals "Fourmeaux Red Wine"

Winery: VGS Chateau Potelle

Vintage: 2021

Wine Name/Vineyard: "Fourmeaux Red Wine"

Wine Category: Red Blends or Varietals

Grape blend: 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Malbec, 7% Cabernet Franc & 7% Petit Verdot

Bottle size: 750 ml

Region: Mt. Veeder

State or country: CA

Price: $350

Cases produced: 150

KWG Score: 97 (based on 1 review)

Ken's Wine Rating: Excellent (97)

Review date: May 21, 2025

Wine Review: This opaque purple colored Cabernet Sauvignon based blend from VGS Chateau Potelle is terrific! It opens with a cassis and blueberry bouquet with hints of tobacco, baking spice, and leather. On the palate, this wine is medium plus bodied with integrated medium plus acidity. This wine has a lovely mouthfeel that is very nicely balanced, velvety smooth, and slightly viscous. The flavor profile is a blueberry and plum blend with notes of graphite and tobacco. We also detected hints of mocha and oak. The finish is dry and its flavors, acidity, and its well-managed polished tannins build-up and stick around for a while. We would pair this Cab blend with a porterhouse steak. Enjoy - KWGTP

Winemaker Notes: The 2021 Fourmeaux Red Wine is a beautiful and extremely elegant cuvée. It’s all there: bright and deep color, fragrant, intensity, harmony, layers, fullness, weight... yet it shows no sense heaviness. It’s all in the balanced power of all the elements. Pure cassis, red & blue fruits, graphite, fresh sage, and violets all define the nose, and it's full-bodied, with wonderful freshness, ripe tannins, and a long finish. It is an elegant and streamlined example of what a steady warm summer gives this beauty compared to the hot weather of 2018 or 2016, very similar in fact to the classic 2013 - we love its balance and purity and its length. A wonderful wine to come back to in five, ten, twenty years.

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