2022, Château Talbot, SAINT-JULIEN, 4ème Grand Cru ClasséBordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot A very well known chteau throughout the world. The big, 105 hectare, vineyard is planted with 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot. Stephane Derenoncourt consults here. Jean Michel Laporte (formerly of La Conseillante) is now in charge here and he is certainly upping the quality. The 2022 Talbot is especially impressive, and if it fulfills all its promise, it is likely to

the complexity that this Pomerol can deliver in spades

but as it travels through the palate things close in

February 2012

there's no expansion at this point

Full-bodied and very refined

Camille Devillenaut co-technical director with Josephine Duffau-Lagarrosse

grainy tannins and impressive tension

fleshy and textural

The 2019 growing season had a little over 50% of the average winter rainfall in the Douro and almost none in the summer

blackberries and flowers

Grand Curoulet is known to be where the first vines of Arbois were planted

but there is also more than enough fruit