This has aromas of dark fruit, tapenade, espresso, dark chocolate and an herbal undertone. The palate is medium- to full-bodied with tender, fine-grained, focused tannins and excellent fruit. Made in 100% new wood. It needs time to soften. From organically grown grapes. Better from 2028.

Black truffles, autumnal fruit, tobacco, undergrowth, coupled with plenty of mouthwatering freshness. In full tertiary mode at this (almost) nine year point, this is ready to share. From a 0.7ha plot of vines at 93m altitude on pure limestone soils, harvested in two days on September 21 and 26, making 3,000 bottles. Jerome Aguirre winemaker for this inaugural vintage that was complicated by frost, Thomas Duclos consultant. 33% new oak barrels for ageing, with 33% amphora and the rest in one year old neutral oak.