Domaine Bart FixinCompact and no nonsense, this opens with red plum skin, sour cherry, and dried raspberry, layered with iron rich earth, crushed stone, and a faint herbal edge. The palate is medium light but firmly built, with savory fruit framed by fine, grippy tannins and a steady line of acidity that gives the wine its upright posture. Subtle notes of tea leaf, damp earth, and clove stem surface through the mid palate, finishing dry, stony, and quietly persistent.

silky tannins and a vivid finish

and culled from the best barrels of a master craftsman’s wine

Very creamy and layered with great length and beauty

It is also the site that most transparently expresses Huet’s long-standing commitment to biodynamics

the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Ciel blossoms in the glass with rigorous spinning

lemon pith

A bit of tobacco

generous white wine that drinks with the texture and voluptuousness of a red

it grips the palate and shows rather significant astringency

brisk acidity

and plum skin—has folded gracefully into savory tones of iron

Meaning if Chateau Latour buys some vineyards way on the outskirts of Pauillac near the Haut Medoc