Supple and sexy with lots of blueberry and black raspberry fruit intermixed with licorice, barbecue smoke and camphor, this medium to full-bodied, supple-textured, sexy effort offers delicious drinking...
Shows well-coiled grip underneath, with dark tobacco and briar hints echoing through the finish and emerging more with aeration.
Sweet oak-spiced aromas of dark berries, mocha and cola, with a floral note gaining strength with air. Supple and expansive on entry, then rising tannins give the mid-palate a serious brooding quality, but there's plenty of intense cassis
Fragrant and promising. Lightly cedary. Cool, elegant and refined but deep, deep tannins giving a firm rounded structure. Long and rich.
Promoted to Premier Grand Cru Classe A in Sept 2012