...unfurl in jaw-dropping fashion, armed with heavenly pure black fruits laced with peony and iris flower and exuding mineralité... The palate is imbued with stunning pixelation...enthralling sense of architecture and thrilling tension...
It brings another level of purity, elegance, and finesse, and it is just a sensational, legendary Margaux... Crème de cassis blue fruits, spring flowers, lead pencil, and violets all define the bouquet, and it's full-bodied on the palate, with a layered, seamlessly textured, flawlessly balanced profile.
Cassis and blackcurrant aromas with hints of crushed stones and bitter chocolate. The palate is full-bodied... Really well-structured with fantastic fine tannins that tighten on the palate, giving this so much liveliness and length. Compacted and energetic at the end.
Soft floral aromatics...violets, blackcurrants, tobacco, cedar, and tar. Deep and seductive, layers of scents - violets, blackcurrants, tobacco, liquorice, slate, tar, cedar. Silky tannins and concentrated fruit create an effortlessly graceful wine. Harmonious in every element - tannins, acidity, and freshness are perfectly aligned...juicy core with excellent acidity. Clean and precise.
Unwinding in the glass with aromas of blackcurrants, blackberries, cedary pencil shavings and pen ink that are deftly framed by new oak, it's full-bodied, dense and layered, with a concentrated core of intensely sweet fruit, broad structural shoulders and a long, resonant finish.
Attractive berry-fruit aromas with a vanilla edge... Finer texture...the tannins both powerful and smooth. Plenty of drive and length. Slight glow of alcohol on the finish.