Haut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend

I typically very much like this property’s chewy, rustic expression but the 2012 just didn’t have quite enough stuffing to balance the grainy toast and gritty tannins. Worked with steak, needed something to grip on to. I don’t see this vintage evolving in a positive manner, drink up...

Excellent, with dark finish. Very good with steak.

Great half bottle. Earthy red without being overbearing.

2012 vintage. Some barnyard notes. Wet earth. Bramble blackberries.

Deep and intense colour with a nose of bramble, cassis and toasty oak. The palate is rounded, medium bodied and with a really nice concentration. Tannins are ripe and very well integrated

On the nose, Smoke, prune, cassis and leather. Lighter to medium body, bitter, high tannins, earthy.

May have been off. But terrible if not.

Spicy at first, then leathery, and good tannins throughout. Great full-bodied accompaniment to N’s cassoulet.

Great value. All the classic notes are present.

Tannic and unctuous.