2020, Domaine Brusset, GIGONDAS, 'Les Secrets de Montmirail'Juicy, round, sweet red fruits and a touch of blackberry. With fine, mouth coating tannin and great finesse on the palate which finishes long. Not a big wine but will take a little while to show its best. Three terraces under the Dentelles de Montmirail, all destemmed, 50% aged in new oak, the rest in vats. 93 Matt Walls, Decanter. Saturated violet color. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes an array of mineral and spice accented red and blue fruits,

cedar and light tobacco notes

compelx and balanced

This is an excellent Clos Fourtet that lives up to its promise en primeur

2022 Larcis Ducasse is deep garnet-purple in colour

The 2022 Roc de Cambes displays a very perfumed bouquet with black cherries and blueberry fruit

racy Saint-Estèphe

"Very attractive

evolving light pencil lead notes after 8-10 minutes

there's an abiding sense of harmony and completeness to this Saint-Émilion that feels draped in limestone

but promises to be amazing

it's an especially elegant rendition of this superb clay-limestone terroir in the Côtes de Bourg

intense wine with plenty of immediacy