2021, Clos du Marquis, SAINT-JULIENBordeaux Blend: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot. Clos du Marquis is a wine of classed growth quality in its own right, produced from a vineyard on the other side of the road near to the vines of Leoville Poyferr. The 2021 Clos du Marquis is a lovely wine, offering up aromas of cherries, burning embers, dark berries, loamy soil and truffle, followed by a medium to full bodied, layered and velvety wine that's rather deep and

crushed rose petal and peony

It’s medium-bodied with racy and fine tannins and a linear

perfumed palate

The 2022 Bél-Air Monange offers copious red fruit on the nose laced with graphite and sous-bois scents

Drinking Window: 2028 - 2048

underpinned by excellent cooling acidity and menthol freshness

yet there is real tenderness here

Quite lean on the palate though

violets and sweet spices preface the 2020 Domaine de Cambes

A gorgeous wine with lots going on

with graphite and gunsmoke aromatics

has slightly darker fruit than the Clos du Roi