Ponsot Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Vieilles Vignes 1990

Ponsot Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Vieilles Vignes 1990A beautifully comple nose of secondary fruit, game, smoke, earth and plenty of spice nuances leads to big, rich, round and solidly powerful full bodied flavors that deliver seriously good length on the mouth coating, velvety, balanced and hugely long finish.

but accompanied by lusciously juicy fresh apple and grapefruit

the 2014 Proprietary Red IX Estate is an old-fashioned Médoc blend dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon

it first delivers aromas of fruit (pear

massive personality

blackberry and blueberry fruit

unctuous texture Petrus obtains in ripe years

first served to me years ago by Jean-Pierre Moueix

long and elegant

and underbrush

Aromatically this is compositionally similar to the regular cuvée except that the fruit is slightly denser and there is notably better complexity

Somewhat unusually at this early stage

There is more volume and certainly more punch to the overtly stony medium weight flavors that possess outstanding delineation before terminating in a youthfully austere