2022 Château Potensac, Cru Bourgeois Médoc
Dry | Red | Still
Tasted April 2023. Potensac, owned and operated by the same team as Léoville-Las-Cases in St-Julien, often over delivers, and in 2022 this is definitely the case. The vineyards are in the north of the Médoc, and the result in 2022 is an expressive, powerful wine. Concentrated black plum, bramble and cherry, with spicy notes and lots of gravelly, stony quality. There's plenty of tannins, and they feel rustic and St-Estèphe in character at the moment, but this is setting this Potensac up for a long life in bottle, where the concentration and density will develop beautifully.
Young: 2027 - 2045