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Critic Notes
A wine, with pleasing blackberries and mushroom character, medium chewy tannins and a fresh clean finish. Full body. Try in 2014. James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
Score: 90-/100 James Suckling
Rich and spicy, with wet earth, berry and currant notes. Full and chewy. A little rustic, but interesting
Score: 88-91/100 Wine Spectator
A Merlot wine displaying loads of mocha and black cherry fruit, with hints of tobacco leaf and coffee, this wine is dense, pure, medium to full-bodied, fleshy and quite seductive in its ripeness and silkiness. Drink it over the next 5-7 years. Wine Advocate.February, 2012
Score: 89-/100 Robert Parker
Ripe and round. Plenty of crunchy fruit. Merlot expression. Smooth tannic frame. Drink 2012-2016
Score: 15-/20 Decanter
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Product Details
Sub-region
Cotes de Francs
Sub-region
Cotes de Francs
Critic Notes
A wine, with pleasing blackberries and mushroom character, medium chewy tannins and a fresh clean finish. Full body. Try in 2014. James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
Score: 90-/100 James Suckling
Rich and spicy, with wet earth, berry and currant notes. Full and chewy. A little rustic, but interesting
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Score: 89-/100 Robert Parker
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