2018 Château La Cabanne Pomerol

The 2018 Château La Cabanne is another pretty, perfumed, incredibly pure Pomerol with loads of blueberry and cherry fruit as well candied violets, spice, and leafy herbs. I love its purity, it has great tannins, a layered, deep mid-palate, and an outstanding finish. It's great today, in a youthful, vibrant fashion, yet will benefit from 2-3 years of bottle age and keep for 10-15 years. It's a gorgeous wine and one of the finest I've tasted from this address, surpassing even the 2016.

The nose is fruity, elegant, racy and offers a beautiful definition, a fine complexity as well as a very fine richness/fleshiness. It reveals notes of pulpy raspberry, bright strawberry and small notes of lilac, fleshy cassis associated with fine touches of blueberry, zan, cuben pepper, spices as well as a very discreet hint of tobacco and an imperceptible hint of cinnamon. The palate is suave, elegant and offers delicacy, gourmandize, a fine unctuosity, an aerial side as well as a beautiful balance and a fine grain. On the palate this wine expresses notes of bright cassis, pulpy/juicy blue plum, small notes of strawberry associated with touches of lilac, peony, cornflower as well as hints of chocolate, toasted, vanilla, a subtle hint of caramelization, an imperceptible hint of coffee and orange zests. Fine hints of ripe/crushed almond on the persistence. Tannins are finely chewy. A persistence on notes of cocoa (good bitterness) and hazelnut.