Château Le Gay, Pomerol, 2015

Name: Château Le Gay, Pomerol
Brand: Château Le Gay
Price: 485.12 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

Henri Parent explained that 2015 was like a holiday! It is the second vintage to be micro-vinified in their very impressive new cellar. Wine-maker, Marcello Pelleriti now has 470 barrels instead of the 12 large vats he used to work with. This enables much more precise vinifications. Produced from 6.5 hectares surrounding the Chateau (next to Lafleur and the original plot of La Fleur Petrus), the final blend is 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc and will be aged for 15 months in 100% new Darnajou barrels. The production will be roughly 16,000 bottles. There's a lovely florality to the 2015 Le Gay. The bouquet is complex and rather enticing with notes of tobacco, plums, spice, huckleberry and roses. There are layers of precisely chiselled, taut fruit and a subtle combination of sweet layered fruit and high toned minerals. It is deceptive, as it initially appears sweet and simple, but this has real gravitas. A pretty but subtly powerful gay.