Saint Estèphe

The 2014 Tronquoy-Lalande has a more elegant, refined bouquet compared to its peers, a mixture of red and black fruit, cedar, iodine and violets, perhaps picked a little later? The palate is medium-bodied with a ferrous...(read more)

Very deep to black colour. Immediately lovely, spicy black fruit, perfect balance, deep and cool and long. Chewy cherry-skin finish. Likely to be great value - buy in magnums for parties.

33% Merlot, 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot. Nose of warm ripe berry fruit. On palate pure ripe rasberries and a silky suave feel. Taut acidity. Good juicy style - relatively simply and attractively balanced and...(read more)

Very deep colour. Inviting nose of deep black fruit. Liquid, fresh and flowing, not massive but no lack of mouthfilling volume. Cassis and spice, fresh berries, black fruit, blueberries. Brilliant definition, lots of len...(read more)

Oaky nose, chocolate attack. There is volume and sweetness and body. Thickly tannic and richly long. Much less expressive than the Pagodes for now, but the same spiced cassis is there too, combined with massive depth and...(read more)

Sweet attack, surprising by its richness. Quite a 'plain' red and black fruit profile, but good. Simple but well done, and nicely long.