Neil Beckett | Medium-deep ruby, with a natural luster. Aromatically, this is deeper and even more intense than the very good Mercurey tout court, opulent and rich but not overripe even in this warm year, darkly fruited but more blackberry than black currant, serious but far from somber. An astonishing, close-knit density, highly impressive intensity and scale, but nothing exaggerated or forced, with plentiful, powerful, but very well-wrought tannins. "Offline" (hors ligne), perhaps, but very much on song. | 90–91