Pur Sang, 2017

More backward and closed than Blanc Etc, but with impressive drive and shoulders to it. While perhaps the least chisselled in the range, it has a depth and profundity that more than compensates and gives a sensual, earthy character to the fruit that gets better and better with air. A layered, sleek powerhouse of a Pur Sang. The southern exposition of this vineyard, a mix of black flint (silex), light clay and chalk, always produces some of the richest and most powerful wines in the line-up. A 1996 on a recent visit was unforgettable…