“I loved it so much I bought it on the spot.” - Rebecca Gibb MW, 95 points

It’s lovely to have a Bourgueil with a bit of bottle age, because it’s a wine that needs to soften and mellow. When it’s young, it’s like a novice yoga pupil, all stiff and angular, but after 6 or 7 years, it becomes supple and pliable. Domaine du Bel Air have crafted an absolute beauty from the 2018 vintage, a pure Cabernet Franc that tastes molten and silken and very ‘grand vin’, if that makes sense. The colour is rich, but graduated from deep cherry at the core to lighter red brick at the rim, and the aromas are almost Burgundian in their perfumed sweetness, showing steeped cherry skins, plum blossom and musk, deepening on the palate to blackcurrant, pencil shavings and red flowers. 13.5% alc. Drink now-2039

Press review:

Vinous (Rebecca Gibb MW): “The 2018 Grand Mont is elegant and savoury. It is dense and yet incredibly transparent and light. For those who love right bank Bordeaux, this will give you that classical reassurance of a high quality, complex red wine. It's not fruit forward, it's all dark chocolate, black cherry, almost like a roast beef dinner. The wine has gorgeous chalky tannins that coat the mouth, and there's a fragrant, log fire-like character on the long length. I loved it so much I bought it on the spot. You could enjoy it now with Sunday lunch but it has 20 years in it. Drink now-2042.” 95 points