Bordeaux 2024:
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A real success this vintage, it opens with subtle spice on the nose of ginger, jasmine, white peach and yellow plum. This is vibrant with a salinity and focus that builds, yet there is also breadth and texture across the palate. A fine touch of bitter lemon comes through on the finish. A great white from this estate.

The beautiful dark purple colour in the glass is striking. There is a peppery note on the nose with dried herbs, sandalwood, and incense - you can feel the energy here immediately. It gracefully fans across the palate with accents of violets, tapenade, soy and earth. Very complete and seamless bramble fruit here with a finely meshed texture of tannins. This grows through the palate to an extremely balance and harmonious finish with a salty, kelp-like inflection. Very fine.

Pavie is made from 28 different parcels which are vinified separately. Oak in recent years has been toned down with the 2024 vintage seeing around 60-65% new wood. It feels quite classical this year offering a restrained nose of sandalwood, violets with a saline feel that fans across the palate. Super tension to the wine, there are inflections of oyster shell, kelp iris and a lot of detail. There is a sinewy and sapid feel with plenty of flesh around the frame.

A blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, this is such a beautiful and expressive Pomerol this year. It begins restrained with subtle notes of pepper, violets, incense so full of detail. It is a tense, saline and vibrant wine which is full of energy just with a fine, caressing texture. There are accents of oyster shell, kelp and soy around the ripe dark cherry fruit. A wine of purity and focus it numbers among the best wines made this vintage.

A blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Merlot. This is a Las Cases with real restraint and rather inward looking for the moment. It has a gravelly core, with hints of spice, cocoa, five spice, and some violet notes. This reminds me a bit of the 2014 – this is zipped up but shows a sense of purity and a lot of detail and definition. Tense and with no excess, it is classical in frame and energy. The tannins are supple and coiled with a lift of iris, violets and soy on the finish.

The first year of organix certification, this is a wine of beautiful intensity. The nose opens with a find, subtle menthol note with accents of nutmeg and sandalwood spice. There is a caressing and velvety feel to the tannin with mineral detail of wet rocks, graphite and oyster shell. There is a coil of tension that runs through the palate with poised and refreshing finish with a lift of crushed violets.

A great Figeac this year it opens with a beautifully defined nose of incense, five spice, violets and a little liquorice. Aromatics are so seductive here - there is an enticing perfume of wet rocks, pepper, charcoal, and dried herbs. Full of elegance it offers notes of pomegranate, cherry and blue fruits with a fine and supple energy. It packs a lot of intensity and complexity into its mid-weight frame, this is a real success for the vintage.

A Cheval Blanc that is all about aromatics and elegance. The nose opens with aromas of lavender, rhubarb, black olive and fresh earth with subtle sandalwood and cocoa spice. There is a coil of tension and energy running through the palate with fine sapidity and a burst of red berry and cassis fruit. Coolness and grace flood the finish with a gentle, sinewy grip of tannin and a little soy and liquorice. A wine that emphasises the terroir with no hint of excess.

Quite serious and brooding Ausone, it is quite restrained for the moment offering aromas of pepper, dried herbs, sandalwood and cedar. There is a slightly sanguine and soy note here with compact, fine grained tannin, intense dark berry fruit with a fine black tea and violet lift. It is tightly coiled and vibrant - a wine that will require patience.

One of the highest proportions of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend this year at 87%, it is a finely detailed, mineral wine which builds and builds in volume. Opening with notes of soy, sandalwood, and cedar it has a real perfume of violets and lavendar lifting from the glass. The palate is very sapid with excellent energy and freshness with bright dark cherry and bramble fruit. The tannins are beautifully proportioned with a sinewy, fine-grained grip. A really classical Pauillac that finishes with excellent definition and mineral inflections.

A classic, vibrant and tense Montrose of subtlety and focus. It is a true classic, the opens with violet-tinged mineral notes of oyster shell and soy. Notes of smoked cedar, sandalwood, soy and kelp emerge too, shimmering from the core of dark cherry fruit. There is a firm, sinewy frame of tannins but this is not lacking in any elegance of detail. A real classic, with the highest ever portion of Cabernet Sauvignon, all from plots on the famous Terrace 4 soils.

A very elegant style of Mouton this vintage. It feels restrained at first, as if holding back. Notes of violets, cedar and sandalwood accent the ripe hedgerow fruit with a lift of violet and cocoa. This is finely eteched with a core of gravelly intensity that builds and builds through the palate to a finish that brings you back for more. An impressive, classical Mouton with a lot of detail and finesse.

Slightly restrained aromatics here, they need some coaxing from the glass at this time. If offers quite mineral inflections of oyster shell, soy and wet stones. There is a rather silky and fluid feel on the palate here with details of liquorice and violets. The finish is bright and focused with a hint of brine and wild herbs.

An expressive Haut-Brion this year there is fine detail of Cabernet with notes of warm gravel, violets and cassis fruit. Accents of pepper and cocoa add complexity here with a sinewy, fine-grained and tense tannin structure framing the fruit. It is a fine, supple and elegant Haut-Brion this year which can be considered a success for the vintage.

A very classic Lafite, not exuberant but rather a wine of vivid detail. There is nowhere to hide in the wine – rather like looking inside a Swiss watch. It transports the beautiful, gravelly Pauillac soils with notes of soy, iodine, graphite and sapid hedgerow fruit. There is bright acidity here, notes of violets and plenty of mineral-etched detail with a fine lattice of tannins. A fine Lafite to drink over the next thirty years.