Medium to deep garnet in colour, the 2009 Grand-Puy-Lacoste opens with a nose of sweaty leather, damp earth, baked cherries and dried mulberries with touches of fried herbs, black olives…
With silky tannins, its sweet berry-scented nose intermixed with some forest floor and underbrush offer impressive aromatics. The wine is medium-bodied, with silky, noble sweetness, and a fine, pure finish.…
Purple in colour along with a sweet perfume of ripe cherries and black currants, and hints of earth and vanilla. Dense, chewy, fleshy, and full-bodied, this beauty is verydrinkable.
Very deep purple-black in colour, the 2019 Capbern explodes from the glass with notes of prunes, baked black cherries and fruitcake plus suggestions of mocha, Chinese five spice, tobacco leaf…
Elegant notes of blackberry, damson, graphite and cedar. The palate displaying concentration cedar and blackberry on the entry, superb balance and a harmonious finish. Succinct.
A complex bouquet of coffee, black cherries and blackberries, incense, dried mushrooms, and liquorice is followed by a succulent, opulent, voluptuous wine. This is a stunning flamboyant wine.