First of the reds. This was pretty solid without delivering a great Grand Cru experience. It had a nice nose, very masculine, with earthy mineral scents and a little touch of spice framing deep draws of dark cherries and blackberries and dark aromas of violet flowers – there was something slightly liquered and quite attractively rich on that bouquet. The palate was quite a bit leaner than the nose suggested though. This was more about steely mineral and earth just patted down with a little bit of dried fruit. There was a solid, masculine structure to the wine, with slightly dry, grippy tannins asserting themselves in a rather herbaceous finish. Those rich liquered tones picked up on the nose were suddenly nowhere to be found. Overall, decently good, but not great. I am not sure it is going anywhere as well – a lot depends on whether the fruit can last long enough for that hard structure to mellow. I am not entirely sanguine about that.

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