Chateau Rocheyron 2020

JAMES SUCKLING: "Super complexity of bright fruit with bark, spice, orange peel and minerals. Medium to full body. Racy and fine tannins. Mushroom, cedar and black tea undertones. 80% merlot and 20% cabernet franc. From organically grown grapes. Hard not to drink now but better in three to five years and will age beautifully."

WEINWISSER: "80 % Merlot, 20 % Cabernet Franc, 25 hl/ha, 18 Monate in 50 % neuen Barriques, Produktion 16.000 Flaschen. Dicht verwobenes Bouquet, zarte Anklänge an Wildkirsche, zarter Kreideton und edle Cassiswürze. Im zweiten Ansatz dunkles Graphit und erkalteter Earl-Grey. Am sublimen Gaumen mit weicher Textur, straffe Ausrichtung, engmaschiges Tanningerüst, stützende feinnervige Rasse, körniges Extrakt und muskulöser Körper. Im konzentriert langanhaltenden Finale mit schwarzbeerigen Konturen, tiefschürfender Terroirwürze und erhabener Adstringenz. Für mich der (bisher) beste Jahrgang, der hier bis jetzt produziert wurde. Kann noch zulegen."

DECANTER: "Peter Sisseck's estate, always for me one of the real sleepers of the vintage, continuing to be under the radar but building excitement and loyalty through sheer consistent quality. This is rich plum in colour, with powerful floral aromatics alongside dense, brushed berry fruits. Sit back and let the quality of this wash over you. It is relatively subdued on the nose at this point but the texture, the fruit quality and precision, the push and pull of intense flavours and gentle featherlike tannins is just so enjoyable. Delicious slate scrape on the finish, and the tightrope feel of a wine that isn't trying overly hard, but just delivering the goods and hanging on with a saline persistency. I love the deftness and clarity of flavour."

THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "Dried flowers, crushed rocks, red and black pit fruits, dark chocolate, licorice and espresso notes frame the perfume. On the palate, the wine combines lift, finesse, silky tannins and layers of sensuous, ripe, deep, red fruits, with a serious dose of minerality that you can really sense in the lingering finish. Drink from 2025-2045."

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "This estate's shift in favor of textural sensuality and purity of fruit continues with the 2020 Rocheyron, the finest wine that Sisseck has bottled to date at this property. Exhibiting aromas of cherries, plums and raspberries mingled with hints of sweet spices and petals, it's medium to full-bodied, seamless and polished, its enveloping core of vibrant fruit underpinned by supple, velvety tannins. Balanced and harmonious, it's a contemporary classic."

FALSTAFF: "Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Einladende Edelholzwürze, schwarze Waldbeeren, Brombeeren und Herzkirschen, feiner Nougat. Stoffig, reife Beerenfrucht, feine Tannine, die gut tragen, frisch strukturiert, mineralisch-zitronig im Abgang, bleibt sehr gut haften, sicheres Entwicklungspotenzial."