Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
par Stephen Tanzer le 30/06/2007
Saturated ruby, with blue highlights. Wild aromas of black raspberry, cassis and dark chocolate. Sweet on entry, then penetrating and powerful in the middle, with a firm edge of acidity. The massive tannins (IPT of 100!) reach the front teeth. There's something a bit stunted about this monster, which I tasted just before its bottling. Thunevin told me that the vines had been quite stressed, and that following a late harvest he did a 35% saignee But the wine took forever to make, and to fall bright, and because Thunevin did not want to fine it, "only waiting helped." Still, this seems very much a "worked" wine.