“Pure, fresh, graceful, vivacious and curranty, with an innate sobriety and elegance.” - Decanter ‘Best in Show’ and 97 points

This ravishing Bordeaux pours a rich colour, a deeply saturated crimson, like theatre curtains, suggesting ripe, healthy grapes with skins full of colour and flavour. The aromas are plush and generous too, perfumed without being sweet, offering kola, cassis, betel nut, red-fleshed plums and subtle toasted oak, whilst the palate is drier and more refined than the aromas might suggest, which is why we love red Graves, because that savoury elegance and gravel-cooled backbone, makes the wines so appetising and perfect for enjoying with classic dishes like rare roast beef, magret de canard and venison or relaxed 'street food', such as pulled pork or curried lamb. 13% alc. Drink now-2030.

Press review:

Decanter: "No other red-wine appellation in Bordeaux offers blends in which Bordeaux’s two leading varieties (Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot) find quite such harmony and balance as in Pessac-Léognan, giving the wines a poise, grace and freshness which other appellations struggle to emulate. This is particularly true in the 2020 vintage, itself marked by both ample ripeness and fresh carrying acidity. This wine is illustrative. It’s dark in colour and has the very best kind of leafy aroma – never green, but conveying a breeze-fresh impression of fruit grown in sunlight within easy reach of the forest (as so much of Pessac-Léognan is). On the palate, the wine is pure, fresh, graceful, vivacious and curranty, with an innate sobriety and elegance; soft tannins, poised acidity and discreet oak complete the appetising and digestible picture. Drink now-2040." 97 points and Best in Show