Croix Labrie

Croix LabrieThe 2020 Croix de Labrie is superb. Rich, pliant and wonderfully expressive, it dazzles right out of the gate. Inky red fruit, rose petal, cinnamon, cedar, new leather and mint all build in the glass. Silky and plush, with terrific balance, the 2020 is shaping up to be a real jewel of a wine. Antonio Galloni

this dense purple wine offers up notes of beef blood

When I first tasted it on release

with a real sense of translucent beauty

There is a lovely mouth feel to the attractively intense and well-concentrated flavors that coat the palate with dry extract before culminating in a refined

this is the only Amarone we will see for a while (until the highly anticipated 2015 is released)

18 ha parcel)

and in combination with the delightful herbal expression on the finish produces an exhilarating coolness on the palate

This mind boggling wine was an epiphany

The palate is built like a brick house

the younger vine cuvee

deepening and revealing nectarine and stone fruit flavours

but it is a touch more refined and floral