Château Le Crock, St-Estèphe, Bordeaux, France, 2010

Open, ripe, forward nose. Nicely concentrated blackcurrant fruit with rich Christmas cake fruit aromas and a leathery touch. This isn’t subtle but it has vigour, structure, a good spicy grip on the finish, a natural sweetness and very good length with a slight St-Estèphe leatheriness. Spicey full wet gravel finish, quite chocolatey.