Chateau Clos Les Lunelles 2019

JAMES SUCKLING: "This is really fantastic, offering blackberries, blackcurrants and crushed stones. Medium to full body with bright fruit and a long, vivid finish. Agile. Another fantastic wine from here after the 2018. 80% merlot, 10% cabernet franc and 10% cabernet sauvignon. Drinkable now, but better in 2024."

JEB DUNNUCK: "Coming from the incredible team at Pavie, the 2019 Clos Lunelles boasts a big, ripe, incredibly sexy and mouth-filling style as well as notes of black plums, black cherries, tobacco, and Asian spices. It brings serious fruit and opulence and is full-bodied, has a round, expansive mouthfeel, sweet tannins, and some obvious underlying minerality. It's already drinking beautifully and should deliver the goods over the coming 10-15 years. While it leads with its fruit, I expect it to show more classic limestone character as it sheds some baby fat."

FALSTAFF: "Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, dezente Randaufhellung. Zart kräuterwürzig unterlegte schwarze Beerennote, Anklänge von Cassis und Grapefruitzesten, zarte Edelholzwürze. Kraftvoll, frische Kirschen, feines Nougat, reife, tragende Tannine, schokoladiger Touch im Abgang, ein stoffiger, mineralisch unterlegter Speisenbegleiter mit Reifepotenzial."