Chateau Pontet Canet 2014 - Case of 6 Bottles (75cl)The 2014 Pontet Canet, now in bottle, was tasted twice during my trip to Bordeaux. It has an attractive bouquet: graphite tinged black fruit, incense and violets, perhaps a little more hedonistic than I envisaged when I tasted it from barrel. The palate is medium bodied with tensile tannin thanks to the keen line of acidity. I like the precision of this Pontet Canet. It feels linear and correct, pencil lead notes developing towards the second half,

The 2016 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is aged for 18 months in 60% new oak

wild blueberries

very finely grained tannins and seamless freshness

Varnier Fanniere

There is excellent volume but also fine detail to the extract-rich medium weight flavors that possess an attractive sense of underlying tension on the very firm and complex finish that delivers good but not better length

so we have red wines full of energy and drive

As you would expect

154th Hospices De Beaune Wine Auction on the 15th November 2014 - Clos de la Roche Grand Cru

Cabernet Franc 10%

but requiring significant barrel- and bottle-ageing to bring it to softness and complex maturity

A cuvée for connoisseurs

The 2015 was magnificent