Wine With Bok - 9.75/10 stars
Elegant and powerful, well done – Dark, well concentrated with a nose of
plum, black fruit, leather, cigar box and vanilla, strong tannins. (4/2014)
Jeb Dunnuck - 92 points
Fully mature and drinking wonderfully well, the 1996 Château Calon Ségur has a classic nose of green tobacco, cedarwood, currants, and sous bois. Playing in the medium-bodied end of the spectrum, it has a wonderful sense of purity, polished tannins, solid mid-palate depth, and outstanding length. This is classic, focused, old school yet pure, balanced Bordeaux goodness. It has another two decades of prime drinking ahead of it. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, and the balance Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, brought up in 50% new French oak. (8/2021)
John Gilman - 92 points
Along with the 2001, the 1996 vintage at Calon-Ségur is one of my favorite from the Merlot-centric era at the estate, probably because the vintage favored Cabernet Sauvignon so clearly in the Médoc and a bit more of this grape was included in the blend at Calon in this vintage. The bouquet is deep, vibrant and youthfully precise, wafting from the glass in a mix of cassis, dark berries, cigar ash, dark soil tones, a touch of curry and a gentle framing of cedary wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and impressively tangy, with a fine core of fruit, currently a quite tightly-knit personality, well-integrated tannins and very, very good length and grip on the focused and still quite youthful finish. This is going to be a lovely wine in another eight to ten years’ time and should prove to be quite long-lived. I love to imagine what the current team at Calon would have done with a vintage such as 1996 today! (1/2014)
Specifications
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Sub-Region | St Estephe |
| Classification | 3rd Growth Medoc |
| Vintage | 1996 |
| Grape | Cabernet / Merlot |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Bok Rating | 9.75/10 Stars |
| ABV | 13.5% |
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