February 29, 2024 - 3 hour decant
Explosive nose of chocolate, dark black, red and blue fruit, dense and deep. Penetrating. Bright and long; rich but not heavy; quite dynamic and cheery. Delicious with amazing length.
One of the more approachable 2016s.
Young but enjoyable w a decant; clearly built to reach further heights. Upside from here
February 16, 2024 - Excellent
Great mouthful of sark fruit with moderate tannins and acidity.
Drinking well
November 17, 2023 - On more wine to navigate in the stellar regions!
June 27, 2023 - Très très grand vin, le meilleur jamais fait, si on excepte la future légende de 2022
February 11, 2022 - Splash decanted 30 minutes before sitting down. This was most open for the first two glasses with ripe raspberry, milk chocolate, and hints of blackberry with high acidity and a shortish finish of earth and green pencil lead. The wine then shut down with aggressive tannins and much less fruit. This was approachable with air but at this stage comes across as any well-made cabernet merlot blend with the fruit dialled up. Good but not great, or I caught this bottle in a simple phase.
November 29, 2020 - Super juicy and forward dark fruit, loads of chocolate and touch of maple syrup. Lush and very well balanced on the palate. For sure this would pass as a Napa wine, but there is a hint of earth and restraint that lets you know are in still in BDX.
September 26, 2020 - Dark chocolate, smoked meat, peppery herbs. Balance is what describes this wine. 98 for now, I bet that it will be a perfect wine in 10 years.
July 26, 2020 - Two glasses from Coravin, first experience with this wine. Drinking very well for such a young BDX, I’d equate it to a more restrained Napa can as others have. Nice red fruits and fine tannins, excites to see where this goes on 5 years.
April 26, 2020 - Just as good as previous bottle (this was the fourth wine this evening), only with shorter decant time because we grabbed another bottle after the sheer joy of the first one!
April 26, 2020 - Third (and fourth) bottle this evening.
A truly explosive nose after a karaf time of 2,5 hours. Everything in place, superb balance. Long finish giving fruit, oak, delicious coffee of the highest quality, roasted dry-aged meats, etc. Terrific!