93pts The Wine Independent
The 2021 Mangot is deep garnet-purple in color. Notes of black cherries, blackberries, and cedar chest soar from the glass, followed by hints of tar and black peppercorns. The medium-bodied palate has a fine-grained texture and compelling tension to offset the bright black fruit layers, finishing minerally.
91pts Wine Advocate
Offering up attractive aromas of red cherries, raspberries and mulberries mingled with licorice and petals, the 2021 Château Mangot is medium-bodied, fleshy and precise, with a pretty core of fruit, integrated acids and fine, powdery tannins that assert themselves on the gently chalky finish.
91pts James Suckling
Fine spices with cassis and a touch of chili chocolate. Medium-bodied on the palate with a fresh, fluid center palate leading to a bright, juicy finish with tight, dusty tannins. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
89-91pts Jeb Dunnuck
The 2021 Château Mangot offers an exotic, perfumed, medium-bodied style in its red and blue fruits as well as sappy flower and almost tropical-slanted aromatics. I like its tannins, it has nicely integrated oak, and a great finish.
90pts Decanter
Direct and focused, this has a good direction from start to finish delivering crunchy and crisp red and blue fruits - blueberries, raspberries and black cherries. This 100% Cabernet Franc is smooth and I love the finesse of the powdery tannins here. Lovely elegance with a cool, dry but still fruity finish. Lively and bright.
History
In 1980, Anne Marie, the youngest of the PETIT daughters, gave up her pharmacy studies to come back to the family property.
In 1981, she married Jean Guy Todeschini: a master stone mason by trade, and he gradually came to support her more and more at Mangot.
Until 1989, Anne-Marie and Jean-Guy would share the running of the two family businesses and bringing up their young sons, Karl (born in 1982) and Yann (1984): two budding wine growers…
From 1989 to 1998, they completely transformed the vineyards at Mangot (re-structuring, re-planting, terracing and drainage works) to bring on the quality in leaps and bounds, year after year, and finally obtain the GRAND CRU label for the estate’s 34 hectares.
In 2001, it was the turn of all the buildings to be modernised, a return to his roots for Jean Guy, a stone mason and architect at heart…
From 1996 to 2008, they travelled in France and abroad to promote the new face of Mangot and look for partners.
On top of their boundless energy and capacity for hard work, thanks to their perspective gained outside the wine world, Jean-Guy and Anne Marie have revived and renewed Mangot, restructuring the vineyards and the cellar, with a single goal in mind: Quality.
