2020 Croix de Labrie
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Tasting notes
Full bottle 1,348 g. Plastic cork! Black-fruited, dense, sooty and powerful. Stallion structure, rippling with glossy muscle and a frisson of darkly gleaming danger. Deeper umami soy and roast-mushroom notes on the underlay. Savoury, aggressive finish. One to put away for a long time. (TC)
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James Suckling
Jane Anson, Decanter
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The Grand Vin 2020 Château Croix De Labrie is brilliant and the finest wine I've tasted from this estate. Dense purple-hued, with a liqueur of limestone-like minerality intermixed with ripe black cherries, boysenberry, spring flowers, and graphite, it's full-bodied, has a wealth of fruit and texture, sweet tannins, and remarkable purity. Its oak is perfectly integrated, and it brings richness as well as an incredible sense of precision and purity. This brilliant Saint-Emilion will be drinkable in just 3-4 years and will evolve for two decades. Tasted twice with consistent notes.
The 2020 Croix de Labrie is rich, sumptuous and a real head-turner. Jammy dark fruit, blood orange, mint, cinnamon, sweet oak and mocha are all amplified. Plush, silky tannins wrap it all together beautifully. The 2020 is opulent and flamboyant, but also remains light on its feet, showing impeccable balance and tons of class.