2023 Clos Les Lunelles
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The 2023 Clos Lunelles is smoking good, with a classic limestone-driven perfume of framboise, chalky minerality, flowers, and sweet spices. It's beautifully ripe, full-bodied, has velvety tannins, and a great finish. It's unquestionably a brilliant wine, and I'd wager one of – if not the – wine of the vintage in Castillon. Bravo.
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James Suckling
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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Flowers, licorice, spice, chocolate-coated black cherries, mint, and black plums get the aromatics going. On the palate, the wine is concentrated, with a salty, black with red fruit core of ripe, sweet, fresh berries. The salty-chocolate fruits linger on the palate, and in the finish with their mineral-driven essence. The wine was made from blending 70% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 10% Cabernet Franc, 14.42% ABV, 3.63 pH.
Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2023 Clos Lunelles offers up compelling scents of juicy blueberries, black cherries, and fresh blackberries followed by hints of licorice, dark chocolate, and tar. The full-bodied palate is dense and plush, with wonderful tension and a spicy lift on the finish. The blend is 70% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, with pH 3.63.
A juicy red with hints of salt and pepper to the blackberries and blueberries. Medium-bodied, crunchy and pretty. Precise and bright.