2018, Vivaltus, Ribera Del Duero, SPAINIt may be a little premature to review this 2018, but make sure you remind yourself to buy a case on release. It's the polar opposite of the big, ripe, overwooded styles of Ribera. Nuanced, refined and hauntingly balanced, with perfumed oak, lovely texture and balance, leafy, graphite like complexity and the length of a world class wine. 98 Tim Atkin, Decanter. Muscular, slate hewn tannins, this has a rugged quality where nothing is overpowered by oak

The nose is spicy

Charmes is a new bottling for Leroux

Drinking Window: 2027 - 2047

Not so expansive but layered vertically with tobacco

after re-discovering some of his fathers bottles and began by using apricots from the Rhone valley orchards of Jean-Louis Chave

A very pretty

clay and limestone

“Les Bondues” is a small

A jolt of limestone salinity

which is unusual for a Pomerol so saturnine in its youth

This is succulent

**** 91-92 Jasper Morris MW