G Guinaudeau

G GuinaudeauThe 2018 Les Perrieres de Lafleur is a blend of 49% Merlot and 51% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet purple in color, it prances out of the glass with wonderfully gregarious notes of kirsch, Black Forest cake and wild blueberries, followed by hints of menthol, rose hip tea and underbrush. The medium to full bodied palate is packed with energy charged red and black fruit layers, supported by exquisitely ripe, fine grained tannins and bold freshness,

99 ha parcel in Champs Traversin)

The medium-bodied palate offers supple tannin

completing a wonderful Barsac

There is good volume and richness to the solidly well-concentrated and appealingly textured medium-bodied flavors that possess excellent depth and length on the quite firmly structured finish where a touch of dryness appears that I suspect is attributable to the recent bottling rather than under ripe tannins

The mouthfeel

but is more than holding its own over in St-Julien

(from Les Rouges du Bas that is worked by horse because it is so steep

Fleshes out with air while maintaining liveliness and finishes bright

campfire embers

There is a lovely sense of energy to the nicely delineated flavors that terminate in a saline-inflected if somewhat simple finish

Apple jelly

(near the very top of the vineyard and atypically