It has a clean and precise bouquet with a touch of gravel, tinged with a scintilla of blood orange. The palate is medium-bodied with tensile tannin, not heavy in the mouth and nicely balanced on the simple, graphite-tinged finish.

Dark violet in colour with aromas of red fruits and spices. This full-bodied wine has well rounded structure with silky tannins. The finish is as elegant as it is suave.

It has a very seductive nose in the making, with ripe blackberries and blueberry scents, interwoven with incense and a touch of graphite–more sophisticated than I was expecting. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. This is an elegant Lacoste-Borie with fine tannin, my only quibble being that the oak

Has a rather surly bouquet, a seaweed note that infuses the black fruit, perhaps just missing a little intensity. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannin, a tad sour on the entry and just needing more depth in the “shallow” middle.

     

Deep crimson colour with a complex bouquet featuring black-berry fruits and subtle toasty overtones. Full and round on the palate with strong tannins and no bitterness.