Tesseron, Pym Rae

Tesseron, Pym RaeThis is packed, offering a core of steeped black currant, plum sauce and blackberry reduction that plays wonderfully with a set of sweet bay, chestnut leaf and dried violet aromatics. Underneath is support in the form of a smoldering cast iron girder as additional singed alder and walnut husk accents filter through. Admirably captures the terroir driven density of this benchmark vintage. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2028

Showy and beautiful

and pure cassis on the nose – very slick and suave

there are no single vineyard wines

An almost syrupy sense of white peach along with hints of white raisin that emerge in that prodigious finish fails to tip the scales in too-confectionary a direction thanks to a vibratory sense of energy and refreshing rivulet of juicy fresh peach and lime that is threaded throughout

The bouquet is very precise and focused with vivacious

minerality and power

and will have more than two decades of overall longevity

A more deeply pitched nose possesses plenty of sauvage character on the floral and earth-suffused aromas

That linear flinty note is just terrific

serious and impressively persistent finish

while its firm

Seriously seductive