Château Clinet, Pomerol, 2016

The Pomerol UGC is a moribund and depressing affair; it's only redeeming feature is we can get in and out pretty quickly… Gazin is really the only reason we still go. Clinet continues to produce wines with lots of extract. The hue would send Johnny Nice Painter heading for the wardrobe of darkness. Brooding, with notes of molasses, tar, liquorice, scorched earth, coffee beans, and thick compote fruit - this is certainly big and extracted, although there is more acidity and this is less brutal than some years. It will probably wow some critics, but not us.