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... Cool, bracing notes from the Franc buttress a core of dark fruit, rose petal, leather and flowers. The creamy, enveloping finish only adds to the wine's considerable appeal. This is fabulous wine from proprietor Catherine Papon-Nouvel.
... Black raspberries, currants, acacia flowers, toasty oak, and graphite, as well as background minerality, all emerge from this beautiful, medium to full-bodied, layered Saint-Emilion that has a great mid-palate, a ripe, sexy texture, and building tannin...terrific complexity and beautiful richness...
...has a gorgeous bouquet with pure dark cherry and blueberry aromas. There is some new oak to be subsumed, but there is plenty of fruit to soak that up. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, a fine line of acidity, harmonious with a brisk, quite minerally finish. Excellent—this is well worth seeking out.
Quite an intense and complex herbal nose that’s very distinctive...has a very high percentage of cabernet franc and that’s given it quite a serious tannic structure, but there’s also wonderful, bright cassis fruit.