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The 2024 Maillet is dark, pliant and super-expressive. Black cherry, new leather, spice and mocha all build in the glass. Vinification in equal parts barrique and tank works so well here in building creaminess and overall texture. This is nicely done.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Colin Hay, The Drinks Business
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Flowers, chocolate-covered raspberries, and licorice notes are easy to spot in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is soft, supple, polished, and fresh, with sweet, juicy, cherries, and cocoa in the finish. Already open, and accessible, you can enjoy this just about on release and for at least 15 years after that.
Good weight and richness with fine-grained tannins, deep black cherry fruit, licorice and roasted sweet spices. Juicy, tight and pretty long. A very structured, compact Pomerol for the vintage.
A bit of a bell-weather wine for me and I like its plump black cherry, blueberry and blueberry fruit profile very much. I like too the hint of peony and the cedar that comes through with more aeration. There’s quite a lot of substance to this which means that the fruit density covers the oak well – it can be a little less subtle here. A shade towards the dry side on the finish but this has, overall, been very well managed and will make for one of the more hedonistic wines of the vintage.