"Very deep colour with powerful bouquet, this is very elegant but has quite a strict midpalate.
eeds time for the flesh to blossom, but lovely ripeness. Silky but powerful tannins. Elegant."
Our last visit of the week. Unfortunately Bernard was away but his very cheerful assistant Pascal took us through a two hour tasting of their increasing range. It is wonderful to see the cellar so full of barrels and restoration of this négociant’s reputation is well on track. They control over 20 hectares either under their own ownership or on long-term contracts. As we find at many of the larger domaines now, larger oak demi-muids (600l) are being used to limit barrel-aged flavours. There were some real winners here for both red and white, with gentle textures, which will be a real pleasure to drink.
