Clos Saint Julien Vintage:2015 penetrating finish

penetrating finish

ripe and well-layered nose combines notes of various dark berries with those of spice

perhaps just less of the orange blossom here but still utterly captivating

Animated and spicy wine with a riveting finish

but the style of the wine did not thrill me

Clos Saint Julien Vintage:2015 penetrating finish(15% alcohol), Bright, full medium ruby. Extremely primary nose offers blackberry liqueur, licorice, bitter chocolate and minerals. Densely packed and tightly coiled, with a strong mineral underpinning and limestone lift to the flavors of blackberry, licorice and violet. More than half of this wine is cabernet franc and it shows in its penetrating minerality and serious tannic spine. I'd hold this for at least 5 or 6 years and then enjoy it over the