Chateau Tertre Roteboeuf Saint-Emilion 2016

The vineyards of Tertre Roteboeuf are located in the southeastern sector of St. Emilion. Unlike most of Bordeaux wine from St. Emilion, winemaker Francois Mitjavile does not produce a second wine. Rather, he wants every year to represent the vintage, for better or for worse. As of late, it’s hard to say there’s a hotter winemaker in all of Bordeaux let alone St. Emilion.

Fresh off a 99-point score in the 2015 from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, Francois and the team reached perfection with their 2016 vintage, a wine that Antonio Galloni called one of the best of the entire vintage. Heck, he loved the wine so much, he would go on to write, “In a world in which so many wines are copycats, Tertre-Rôteboeuf is an original. And the 2016 is a great, emotionally moving Tertre-Rôteboeuf.”