Château Hosanna, Pomerol, 2019

Tasting Note:

Produced from 69% Merlot and 31% Cabernet Franc on gravel and red clay on iron-rich subsoil. Hosanna is often the most exotic in the JP Moueix line-up. This has a wonderful perfume of intoxicating spice, black cherry liqueur, eucalyptus, blood orange, gunflint, smoke and black tea leaves. The palate is awash with glorious, seductive black fruits; it’s almost inky with palate staining liqueur chocolates, damsons, black plum and prune. A striking Hosanna, which deftly balances its immense core of hedonistic dark fruit and spice, and still retains a sense of tension and verve. Fine grained tannins coat the palate with salty minerals, liquorice, and Valrhona chocolate. Impressive, decadent and cohesive; a complete and rather splendid Hosanna.