La Garde's excellent Graves offers up plenty of smoky barbecue notes intermixed with raspberry, black cherry and a touch of graphite. This is a medium-bodied but nicely concentrated wine and certainly qualifies as a sleeper of the vintage, given its realistic pricing. Drink it over the next 6-8 years
Powerful and chewy with loads of dark fruits and currant leaf. Full and velvety. Loads going on. Biodynamically produced.
Dark crimson. Very attractive fresh fruit on the nose. Really savoury and luscious. There's a middle charge of fruit here, which is lacking on many others. Though it is not that dense. Nice easy drink that seems to have been fairly heavily extracted. Pretty rich and intense for a Pessac-Léognan.
Solid, with a juicy core of crushed plum, cherry and blackberry laced with nicely integrated toast and spice.
This elegant blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and the rest Petit Verdot offers up raspberry and blueberry notes and a hint of acacia flowers, along with some minerality and subtle smoke. A classic Graves that delivers medium-bodied flavors with very good concentration and purity, it should drink nicely for at least a decade or more.
