April 14, 2024 - Ripe, plummy cherry fruit. Rich and spicy, great purity. Lavender and thyme. Great expression of terroir, as always, from Charvin. Many years left.
January 13, 2024 - A fine nose that suggests plummy fruit and a hot hillside.
On the palate the fruit is muted but there are great notes of garrigue that are interesting and long on the finish.
This really settles well and improves over several hours. It has depth, layers, dark beauty, fine tannins and lots to give.
Ace.
January 2, 2024 - Pnp. Medicinal red fruit to start giving way to taut, candied berries and spice. Consistent. Continues to be in an ideal phase and should be for a good while.
December 24, 2023 - Popped and poured - earthy and tight.
October 13, 2023 - Deep garnet color with minimal signs of aging. This was immediately highly aromatic after opening with rich smells of blackberry, sage, thyme, and cassis. After a brief period of oxygen exposure, it evolved from slightly hard to a soft plush wine. It is still youthful but a great pleasure to drink at present.
September 29, 2023 - CdP blind tasting. Illuminating evening, while there were some nice and complex wines there were also quite a few misses. Issues revolved around either not aging well and becoming pruney, oxidative with cooked fruit aromas or just being too heavy/sweet/alcoholic. TN: Nose of farmyard and brett, complex and masculine. The palate is precise and has very good acidity, they managed the warm vintage very well here.
June 2, 2023 - Deep garnet color. Enticing nose of candied red cherries. After an appealing start, the initial taste and feel on the palate are disappointing. The wine is a little disjointed with an over-ripeness combined with too much oak. I have been a long term fan of this wine and have a vertical in my cellar but this bottle was disappointing. I am going to wait on trying the next one to give it a little more aging as it may improve (said hopefully).
December 25, 2022 - Ready to drink now. Decanted for an hour. Still a little tight at the 3hr mark it really started to open up. This can still sit for a little bit with no problem
October 30, 2022 - Bouchonnée!
October 29, 2022 - Nez classique , garrigues, des épices. Le vin le plus frais de la série, rien de tombe dans la lourdeur. Le seule vin deviné pour le millésime, 2009 étant évident pour moi avec ce côté fruité.