Lurid ruby-red. Powerful Chambord, cherry pastry, incense, lavender and spice cake aromas show sharp definition and pick up a lively mineral nuance as the wine opens up. Sweet and seamless on the palate, offering deeply concentrated but energetic raspberry, cherry liqueur, five-spice powder and floral pastille flavours that are given a lift by a jolt of juicy acidity. Suavely blends richness and finesse and finishes extremely long and smooth, with resonating floral and spiciness and pliant tannins that lend shape and gentle grip.

Offering a Grand Cru Burgundy-like nose of flinty minerality, blackcurrants, violet, white flowers, and ground pepper, it hits the palate with medium to full body, soft tannins, and a wonderful sense of purity and freshness… this is certainly one of the fresher, more Burgundian-styled wines I’ve tasted from Barroche.