Domaine de Beaurenard Cote du Rhone 2023A singular year in many respects, 2023 is already showing all the signs of being a great vintage. It perfectly incarnates the rebellious and inventive spirit to which the Coulon family is particularly attached. The winter was dry, and advanced to the sound of secateurs engaged in soft pruning. This method, introduced in 2019, allows each vine to be guided towards the optimal flow of energy contained in its sap, enabling each plant to develop in

throughout the harvest

This is a sumptuous and yet refined Pape-Clement that demonstrated the most matière or substance out of all the Pessac-Léognan 2014s that I tasted

This is very Nuits in basic character and will need a few years of cellaring to round off the tannins

nothing will

incense and violets

and fresh wine

All in all

finishing long and mineral laced

suggestive of boysenberries

Saint Emilion

it's a ripe

The 2016 Leoville-Barton is picked from 29 September until 13 October