AJ | Dark, saturated dense black-red -- very deep for Ormes de Pez at this stage. Very ripe, too, for Ormes de Pez,with a great warm breath of 2019 fruit force lifting from the glass. Impressive. It seems to me (at the same time) that it may not be a perfect bottle --just the stirrings of a little tca, but the wine is impressive. [We only have one sample.] On the palate, it is deep, searching, hugely energetic, powerful, scouring; again all extraordinary in the context of a vertical run of Ormes de Pez. Again on the palate I sense that there may be a developing tca problem here so perhaps best to put this bottle aside but with the note that this may well be a very special wine for this property. A kind of untrammeled exuberance here. [My score is accompanied by ++?? but I note the system doesn't retain these diacritics!]Drink Dates: 2024 - 2015. 90
MS | Crisp ripe red fruit and ‘gravel’ aromas to smell, touched by new wood vanilla; full, vigorous in acidity, gently, chewily tannic; a very nice St Estèphe balance; briskly fruity red and blackcurrant flavour, subtly gravelly, an attractive juiciness, moderate complexity, good light length. Drinkable already, many years of tasty lesser claret pleasure ahead. Drink Dates: 2024 - 2032+. 89