2022 Domaine de l'A

The dense purple-hued 2022 Domaine De L'A clocks in as 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc. It's concentrated and up-front, with full-bodied aromas and flavors of blackberries, smoky black cherries, chalky minerality, and graphite. With an undeniable sense of minerality, ripe, velvet tannins, and a great finish, it's a no-brainer purchase. It's going to round into form with just a few years of bottle age and have two decades or more of overall longevity.

The 2022 Domaine de l'A derives from vines planted on a superb calcareous plateau and clay-limestone slopes. Exhibiting aromas of juicy cherries, cassis, spices, graphite and licorice, it’s medium to full-bodied, deep and tensile, with a concentrated core of fruit, racy acids and a long, penetratingly saline finish. This is a terrific effort from Christine and Stéphane Derenoncourt and their team.

The 2022 Domaine de L'A is a gorgeous, pedigreed wine. Dark and sumptuous in the glass, with tons of supporting structure, the 2020 packs a serious punch. Black cherry plum, spice, leather, licorice and chocolate are all dialed up.