Chateau Clinet 2023

JAMES SUCKLING: "This is full-bodied yet tight and poised, with a pretty, pure center-palate of ripe fruit and fine, integrated tannins. Classy presence. May be better than 2022."

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "Rich and layered, the 2023 Clinet wafts from the glass with aromas of dark berries, spices and licorice, framed by creamy new oak. Medium to full-bodied, deep and complete, with a rich chassis of powdery tannin underpinning its sweet core of fruit, it concludes with a broad, vanillin-inflected finish. As is routinely the case at this address, it's a successfully rendered Pomerol in a more modern style."

FALSTAFF: "Dunkles Rubingranat, tiefer Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Zarte Edelholzwürze, schwarze Kirschen, kandierte Veilchen, Mandarinenzesten sind unterlegt. Mittlerer Körper, feine Beerenfrucht, integrierte Tannine, feiner Säurebogen, saliner Abgang, balanciert, rotbeeriger Touch, ein finessenreicher Speisenbegleiter."