(2 year 600-litre oak cask) full red robe. The bouquet is savoury, gives an air of ripe red fruits, smoky bacon – it is reserved, but has class, latent raspberry and mulberry. The palate debut is silken, has a most textured surface above a real plunge of full content with a build of serious tannin, a compact pile of tannin. This is very well structured, is Grand Vin. It is coolly floral, is complex, intricate, extended. From 2024. 6*

Mid dark purplish crimson. I assume this is a cask sample as it’s not the absolute freshest on the nose. But it’s pretty glamorous and snazzy on the palate. Quite heavily extracted but it should eventually deliver something halfway between a LaLa and a Clusel Roch! 17+ points