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ROC16
Roc de Cambes 2016
ROC16
Roc de Cambes 2016

Roc de Cambes 2017

€103.65

“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’s dominated by foreign investors and outside consultants, philosopher-winemaker François Mitjavile is a unique figure. For both of his estates, he counts as a winegrower, cellar master, and face of the company united in one person. After Mitjavile acquired the domain Tertre Roteboeuf (Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux) through his in-laws in the late 1970s, his output quickly branded him a favorite of the great wine critics (including Robert Parker).

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 wood. The ‘Domaine des Cambes’ wines are also produced here, but the grapes come from a slightly colder vineyard located just outside Cotes de Bourg, right on the Gironde river (as seen on the label’s image).

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