Clos Saint Julien

Clos Saint Julien(15% alcohol), Bright, full medium ruby. Extremely primary nose offers blackberry liqueur, licorice, bitter chocolate and minerals. Densely packed and tightly coiled, with a strong mineral underpinning and limestone lift to the flavors of blackberry, licorice and violet. More than half of this wine is cabernet franc and it shows in its penetrating minerality and serious tannic spine. I'd hold this for at least 5 or 6 years and then enjoy it over the

Once again there is fine density to the delicious and caressing but powerful middle weight flavors that coat the palate with dry extract on the clean and agreeably dry finale

A restrained and brooding but beautifully complex nose offers up cool red and dark berry fruit aromas that are liberally laced with pungent earth

elegant and lush

Though ripe

It's medium to full-bodied

75 ha parcel of vines averaging 35 to 40 years of age)

I'd like to check back in on this in five or six years

Tangy marmalade and quince notes enliven the entry

more so than the '89 (or the '82

a little spicier than I recall with fine tension towards the finish

It might be the estates intro-level wine

This lovely effort is textbook Combe d’Orveau and a wine that should age well over the next 12 to 15 years