2005 Richebourg

Full red-ruby. This is pure sex appeal on the nose: black raspberry, coffee, minerals, grilled oak and smoke, with a piquant topnote of blood orange. Large-scaled and utterly seamless, filling the entire mouth with black cherry, blackberry and black raspberry perfume. As powerful as this is, there's no undue weight here owing to the wine's outstanding vibrancy and aromatic lift. Boasts great volume and palate-staining persistence, with the noble tannins buried under a wave of fruit.