2020, Château Guillot-Clauzel, POMEROLBordeax Blend: Merlot, Cabernet Franc. The 2020 Guillot Clauzel has come together beautifully since I tasted it en primeur. Most notably, the oak (50% new) has integrated very nicely, even better than I expected to be honest. Spice, pepper, graphite and scorched earth lend an exotic, deep quality to the aromatic profile that is quite intriguing. As always, Guillot Clauzel has a certain nerviness in its tannin that makes it a Pomerol more of structure

truffles and tapenade with a waft of tilled black soil

but as it travels through the palate things close in

Fresh and ripe blue fruit on the nose

understated joyful frame flowing with juicy black cherry

So much class in the nose with a sophisticated kaleidoscope of dark fruit such as blackcurrants

Structured also

pencil shavings and petroleum jelly

so higher percentage here

Clear ripeness to the plum colour

Not the exuberance that you find in the most recent years of Ducru

a creamy core of fruit and sweet

giving way to a powerful core of blueberry preserves