Clotte (Saint Emilion)

Clotte (Saint Emilion)As I wrote when I tasted this 2014 La Clotte from barrel, Pauline Vauthier regards this as the first official vintage of the wine now part of the the family's portfolio. It was raised in the same cooperages as Ausone with a very low toasting. The bouquet is very precise and focused with vivacious, very focused, mineral laden red fruit, whilst retaining a sense of elegance and translating the terroir. The palate is medium bodied with very fine tannin,

Subtle aromas of plums

the 2000 vintage delivered a precocious Dom Pérignon

Tasted blind at Farr Vintners 10-Year On Bordeaux horizontal

The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Red Rock Terrace comes from seven acres of the 20-acre vineyard (whereas the Gravelly Meadow emerges from five acres)

the 2007 Proprietary Red Wine still possesses a youthful deep garnet-purple color and gives up a truly gorgeous nose of crème de cassis

This possesses a liqueur-like quality to the softly spicy and earthy cassis

with perfectly integrated acidity and a floral element giving clarity and lift to the red fruit

The Il Marroneto 2017 Brunello di Montalcino Madonna delle Grazie shows an elegantly streamlined appearance with shiny ruby highlights

with copious quantities of black raspberry and cherry fruit intermixed with spicy oak

drink it anytime over the coming decade

the phenolics are ripe and this should round out in time

The wine seems fully mature