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Tasting note
Dark red-ruby. Very ripe, perfumed scents of blackberry, black raspberry, licorice and violet. At once thick and sharply delineated, conveying an impression of creamy depth to its flavors of black fruits, tropical bitter chocoate and violet. In a distinctly ripe style for Amoureuses despite the fact that these vines were picked early (the malolactic fermentation was very late). But this wine, notes Saouma, has been perfectly balanced from the start. He described it as "a gentleman, from a happy piece of land." He also told me that "this is the only wine you won't need to cafare. Why? Because I'm not going to sell it!" A small percentage of stems has no doubt contributed to the wine's impression of energy and definition.
Score: 93-95
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com, December 2016
