2022, Château La Grave, AOC POMEROLBordeaux Blend: Merlot, Cabernet Franc. The 2022 La Grave offers an attractive mix of fruit intensity and vibrancy, a pretty appealing combination, especially in this vintage. Gravel, dried flowers, mint, charcoal, licorice and spice meld into a core of dark fleshed fruit. La Grave is deceptively medium in body, but it packs plenty of punch. 91 93 Antonio Galloni, Vinous. Offering up aromas of minty blackberries, plum preserve and liquorice, the 2022

The palate is medium-bodied with an effervescent

But it’s the texture that’s so captivating

it has real energy on the palate while having a bitterness and a salinity to the tannins that are grippy and mouthfilling

Elegant and well poised

Mid crimson

73% of them new and the rest second use

The fruit is precise

fleshy wine with a bright core of fruit

and it manages to pull up just short of too much

This has extreme delectability

medium plus length

iodine and touches of blood orange