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Roc de Cambes 2016
Roc de Cambes 2016
Roc de Cambes 2016
Roc de Cambes 2016

Roc de Cambes 2016

€92.09

“The 2016 Roc de Cambes is powerful, tightly wound and closed in on itself. That should not be an issue, but readers should be prepared to be patient. Iron, smoke, tobacco, cedar, menthol and licorice all add aromatic nuance to a core of dark fruit. I also tasted a bottle that had been opened two days prior. There I found a wine of amplitude and breadth. This is another superb 2016 from the Mitjavile family.”

96 pts. Antonio Galloni (1/2019)

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Francois Mitjavile

In a landscape that is increasingly dominated by foreign investors, philosopher-winemaker François Mitjavile is a unique figure: winegrower, cellar master and face of the company united in one person. After Mitjavile acquired the domain Tertre Rotebouef (Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux) through his in-laws in the late 1970s, he managed to acquire a position as the favorite of the great wine critics (including Robert Parker) in a relatively short time. A little later he bought the domain Roc de Cambes in Cotes de Bourg, where he also attracted attention with its typical combination of late grape harvest and intensive use of new oak. The “Domaine des Cambes” wine is also produced here, but the grapes come from a slightly colder vineyard located just outside Cotes de Bourg, right on the Gironde river (see image on label).