Top Pick
2022
6x75cl
DP
£457.22
Top Pick
2022
6x75cl
EP
£405.00
There have been so many wonderful wines made during the 44-year tenure of Xavier Borie, it's hard to pick favourites, suffice to say the 2022 is right up there with the very best. Produced from 79% Cabernet Sauvignon and 21% Merlot, this opens with a more fruit driven bouquet with subtle hints of tobacco, cracked earth, floral notes of violets and a hint of liquorice. The core is wonderfully vibrant and full of precision; ample purple fruit intertwined with mineral notes, it feels stylish and unforced with a really classy salinity. A plush, enveloping, contoured palate which is texturally alluring, this GPL caresses the mouth with glorious flavours and so much detail. Striking tannins provide grip, complexity and reverberating length. Emeline explained that 2022 was hotter than 2003, but they had some welcome rain when they needed it. Winemaking was as normal with gentle extractions, just some pump-overs at the beginning before they closed the vats. The cuvaison lasted three weeks, which is more or less normal – they were conscious not to overdo it. The result is one of the most spectacular wines of the Medoc and one of the all-time great GPLs.
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