Chateau Chantemerle, Médoc, Bordeaux, 2010

Tasting: Crus Bourgeois 2010

Rich blackberry nose with some oak, ample fruit here, almost opulent. Broad, lush, supple, but has some underlying tannin and grip. It’s a touch severe now, so needs time for the tannins to integrate fully. But it has substance and typicity. Quite long.

Tasting: Crus Bourgeois 2010

Youthful nose, clean and fresh, blackcurrant and cranberry. Fresh palate, big tannins. Needs food.

Tasting: Crus Bourgeois 2010

Impressively dark colour, black-red, well-expressed and nicely concentrated berry fruit on the nose, slightly smoky and already showing complexity and some elegance despite the concentration, good freshness on the palate, has depth, structure and balance, a very classy Medoc.