- Château Gazin 2021 has been released at £660 per 12×75.
- The wine has 90-92 points from Neal Martin.
- The 2012 and 2019 vintages offer better value.
As part of this year’s Bordeaux En Primeur campaign, Château Gazin 2021 has been released at €55.20 per bottle ex-négociant, down 1.4% on the 2020’s opening price. Volumes are down 60% on last year.
The wine is being offered by the international trade for £660 per 12×75. The 2012 and 2019 vintages look better value compared to this year’s release. See more pricing analysis below.
Critics’ scores
Neal Martin (Vinous) awarded today’s release a barrel range of 90-92 points. He said it offered ‘a harmonious, defined bouquet of red and black fruit laced with black truffle and well-integrated oak’.
William Kelley (The Wine Advocate) gave it 91-93+ and called it ‘a fine effort’. He further noted that ‘mildew pressure combined with wet conditions that made it impossible to enter the vineyard with tractors’ which ‘delivered low yields of only 18 hectoliters per hectare, and the grand vin is entirely Merlot this year’.
James Suckling scored it 92-93, while Jane Anson rated it 91 points.
Fair Value analysis
The 2021’s opening price comes at around a 35% premium to the price implied by Liv-ex’s Fair Value methodology. Buyers looking for value might be interested in the 2012 and 2019 vintages, which boast 95-points and cost about 9% less.
The 2020 also looks attractive, with 94-points from Martin and at £600 per case.
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Liv-ex analysis is drawn from the world’s most comprehensive database of fine wine prices. The data reflects the real time activity of Liv-ex’s 560+ merchant members from across the globe. Together they represent the largest pool of liquidity in the world – currently £100m of bids and offers across 16,000 wines. Independent data, direct from the market.
