2020, Les Perrières, BORDEAUX Supérieur Rouge (Ch. Lafleur)Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Franc, Merlot. The 2020 Les Perrires is fabulous. Rich and heady in the glass, it offers up a compelling mix of sumptuous dark fruit and complicating savory and mineral undertones. Gravel, sage and menthol are buried under a huge core of blackberry and plum fruit. All the elements are so well balanced in this embryonic Bordeaux Suprieur. Time in the glass brings out the wine's more delicate side. 94 Antonio Galloni, Vinous. So

Founded in 1987 by Sylvie and Jacques Guinaudeau

A pure expression of Sangiovese

Firm and solid to the end

Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting

50% new barrels

the 2020 Chablis Grand Cru Bougros Côte Bouguerots offers a resumé of several of Fèvre's grand cru bottlings

This much respected property in Pessac-Léognan is run with great care by Olivier Bernard whose family took it over from Claude Ricard in 1983

full and fruity

A number of different soils and exposures that add complexity

The wine is aged for 18 months in small French 225l oak barrels

singing of Black Forest cake

Sweet red berry fruit