Community Tasting Note

englishman's claret wrote:

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - The 2020 Gruaud Larose is an explosive wine, packed full of fig, cassis, boysenberry, and plum - yet for all its intensity, the fruit doesn’t stray into overripeness. This is so fresh, crisp, and long. I love the potpourri, pencil, and licorice notes that slowly emerge. There’s plenty of tannin in the mouth and it will take time to integrate, but the slow burn of purple fruit and pencil this shows on the finish makes a statement: Gruaud Larose is back. 2020 has produced the best Gruaud Larose since the 1982 and 1986 and I do think it seems destined to end up in conversations which include the 1928 and 1961. But this is substance and not flash - and it will take at least 20 years to really start showing all of its glory.

79 CS, 17 M, 4 CF

95-96 (+?)

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