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 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.

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.

The 2015 Les Griffons de Pichon Baron is medium to deep garnet-purple in color with a nose of black currants, black cherries and mulberries with earth, tar and meat suggestions. The medium-bodied palate is firm with a muscular core of earth and herbs-accented fruit and a long finish. Solid, with

Fruity yet elegant wine with aromas of ripe fruits and graphite notes.

Fruity, rounded wine with bouquet of blackberry and raspberry aromas and graphite notes

Lucid purple in colour, the bouquet leaps from the glass with graphite interwoven through the black fruit. Medium on the palate and remains understated on the first taste.

This complex and deep wine with notes of dark plum, blackcurrant, licorice and hint of truffle is a full-bodied wine with supple tannins with beautiful, expensive mouthfeel. A successful wine of this vintage and can be cellar for maturity up to 6 years.