Château Roc de Cambes, Cotes de Bourg, 2017
François Mitjavile’s Côtes de Bourg property is always worth serious consideration if you like exotic, hedonistic Claret. The 2014 is packed with sloes, damsons, mulberries, sweet earth and incense. There is a really impressive extract here with a complex dark fruit core, exotic liqueur fruit and sensational purity. Unlike anything else from the Cote de Bourg, this is a most impressive, fresh, seductive Roc de Cambes which on the basis of our tasting is easily a match for the Tertre Roteboeuf!
critic reviews
At Roc de Cambes in 2017 there was no frost due to the slopes in the vineyards. The color is medium to deep garnet-purple and it is a little closed and broody at first, soon awakening to reveal notes of redcurrant jelly, chocolate-covered cherries, and cedar chest, leading to hints of stewed Ceylon tea, underbrush, and dusty soil. The medium to full-bodied palate offers loads of red and black fruit layers with a racy line of freshness and soft, satiny tannins, finishing on a lingering peppery note.
The 2017 Roc de Cambes has a vivid bouquet with ebullient redcurrant and cranberry fruit that "jump" out of the glass, yet the aromatics remain tender and graceful, to use two words uttered by François Mitjavile in describing the vintage. The palate is very well balanced with filigree tannins, dark berry fruit laced with clove and bay leaf, just a hint of tobacco on the aftertaste. Very fine and very classy.