The 2010 Château Puy-Blanquet is medium (+) ruby in colour with a nose of crushed red berries and almost fresh bluecurants. A slightly candied and sweet nose that is simple and straightforward. On the palate, fresh redcurrants with underlying slight woodiness remains consistent from start to end palate. Tannins are rather wooly and finish is rather short with a back end creeping acidity. Slight alcoholic at the finish. Straightforward and rather quaffable, probably better with food.

The 2009 Château Latour à Pomerol is medium purple in colour with a fresh nose of playful liquorice, fresh black currants/cherries, gravel and underlying gentle oakiness with slight vanilla.

On the palate, a good initial sweetness upon attack, intertwined with good freshness. Notes of ripe black cherries as it progresses with a refreshing minty coolness and good gravel notes and wet rocks alongside crisp, clean currant/cherry skins. Amidst all of that going on, there's also an underlying gentle clean wood. The wines prolongs on a nice finish. Good integration of flavours, well-layered. Enjoyable now, but definitely a lot of room for development. (91-93 pts)

The 2009 L'Hospitalet de Gazin is medium purple in colour with quite a shroomy nose of uncooked shitake mushrooms and very gentle liquorice with underlying blackcurrents and a little wood spice. A soft entry of plumminess as oakiness begins to surface from the mid to end palate.

Quite feminine and approachable at the moment. Good structure, simple, but not too boring. Tannins are mouth-coating and rather intense. A slight rising back end alcohol that might bug the sensitive palate. The wine finishes with a rising back-palate bitterness that may remind one of dried stalky leaves. (86-87)

The 2010 Château La Grave a Pomerol Trigant de Boisset is bright medium(+) ruby in colour with a nose of sweet coffee, red cherries and currants and candy floss. A burst of sweetness and super juicy red cherries upon entry with an underlying fresh plums and prune skin which makes the wine one that is of lighter weight, round, quaffable and almost 'fun'.

Gentle extraction of tannins that leads to a softer and pleasant-drinking wine. Very slight (almost unoticeable) rising back end aciditiy. Tannins are rather velvety on this one on a pleasant medium(-) finish. Nice value.

The 2007 Château Certan de May is dark ruby in colour with a noes of blood cherries, rust and dirty wet soil. On the palate, an entry of rust before progressing to dirty wet soil and slight black currants tone and plums. Tannins are quick to take over pretty strongly that unfortunately 'cuts' the wine flavours on a rather short finish. Rather linear with fruit flavours just falling off, but powerful grippy tannins indeed. Medium (+) acidity. Has loads of tannin weight, but fruit factors are just 'broken apart' almost, could use a little more character perhaps?

The 2009 Château Magdelaine is medium(-) purple in colour with a slight ruby rim. Superb sweet notes of dark raspberries, backed up by a woody structure, wool, gravel and underlying playful liquorice on the nose. On the palate, an entry of gravel and clean fresh mint which makes the attack pretty refreshing and invigorating. Quite an elegant palate character with underlying noticeable fruits of purple berries and cherries and undeniable noticeable oakiness.

Nice medium finish with a good focus. Rather layered and fresh with good fruit purity. Nice layers of flavours, a little more than pleasant indeed. (89-90)

The 2002 Château Trotanoy is medium purple in colour with a nose of dried mushrooms, tobacco, underlying earthiness of dried soil and crushed black currants. On the palate, an entry of slight crushed black currants. There's some freshness but yet good weight of some sort of dry soil. Velvety mouth-coating tannins. Quite a structure there, yet rather soft but quite focused as well. Can be quite unpolished at this moment.