October 18, 2023 - Unyielding, tannic and hard. Not attractive.
August 27, 2023 - Love this. Very clean and fresh palate delivering full and precise mixed berry fruit with a dry juniper, tobacco and leather finish. Some serious and traditional structure here, which is maybe too austere for some but, married with the generosity of flavour, it is right up my street. Pretty confident this will improve and be a belter in its early to mid twenties, but no problems with getting this out now to have with food.
August 14, 2023 - Fantastic wine
August 1, 2023 - A very nice surprise. I had bought this wine more for the name that reminded me of Beaudelaire than for what the critics said. I drank it for the first time when it was young and it seemed heavy and quite monolithic, hence the surprise. After more than a decade in a magnum format, it delighted the whole table. The guests, lovers of Burgundy, were impressed. The tannins were fine, the fruit still very present and without any trace of tertiary aromas. It was as drinkable as a good Vosnes and it disappeared in no time. This reconciled us with Bordeaux, you just have to be patient.
August 1, 2023 - Dufter av solbærblader og litt blyant, men generelt nokså tilbakeholden på duft. Herlig frisk syre i munnen, flott tanninstruktur som er rund og behagelig nå. Deilig balansert nå. Frukten er fremdeles fin, så det er ennå mye å lagre på også.
June 12, 2023 - Bought en primeur.I found this wine to be nicely balanced and drinking à point.I doubt it will improve from here.A good value for money buy en primeur.
April 21, 2023 - PNP. Deep ruby magenta color. Currant, plum, mushroom, and pumpkin seed. Smooth, tongue drying palate. Firm, medium intensity tannins on the longish finish.
This is very nice, but now past it’s prime for my palate. There was an unpleasant sharpness to the finish.
January 30, 2023 - This is a wine that will confirm the beliefs of both Bordeaux lovers and Bordeaux skeptics. The skeptics will find it tart and relatively fruitless, and the lovers will find it complex and intoxicating. Lots of fine sediment. Dark color. Heady floral aroma -- roses and blackberries. High acidity and moderate high tannin. Gained weight with aeration. Aromas carry over to palate -- roses and blackberries with a background flavor of mushroom. The aftertaste is a little underpowered, dilute, but overall this is a very satisfying young Bordeaux. I expect it to improve with age and to last for a very long time.
December 15, 2022 - This was always one of my value BDX wines. However, maybe it is my palate, but I am just swinging more and more to new world reds. I feel these French wines, like Italian wines, tend to be full of tannin early on, making them difficult to drink young, then at 12 years like this wine, have no fruit left and therefore what is left is a pretty boring wine.
November 6, 2022 - Probsbly won’t get any better - drinking nicely now