CLOS DE LA BARTHASSADE 2022 TERRASSES DU LARZAC LES OUVREES

‘Lifting this glass to your nose is like catching a whiff of fragrant cigar smoke on an early summer evening, threading between the heady purple scent of lilacs and wisteria. The fruit is black and sweet and tinged with ink-dust sootiness, cupped within the curved brace of grainy, herbal tannins. It's a chiaroscuro of black and purple uplit by splashes of bright, cypress and chocolate-mint green. Why have I never tasted a Clos de la Barthassade wine before?! This is fantastic.’ Drink 2024-2033 (Tamlyn Currin of Jancisrobinson.com)