and dark cherries

layers and plushness make for an absolutely DELICIOUS drink right now

with a deep and layered core of fruit that's discreetly underpinned by succulent acids and sweet

this rivals the 2016 as the finest Cheval Blanc of the decade

The 2019 Léoville Las Cases is a brilliant young wine that will delight Bordeaux purists

Promontory, Napa Valley, 2012, 75cl 100RP and dark cherriesThe 2012 Promontory, which is the softest vintage to date, was slightly better this year than last year, as it had rounded out. It does not have the depth of the 2013, but it is a great wine on its own merits. Notes of new saddle leather, loamy soil, and crushed rock intermingle with blackcurrants, plum, tobacco leaf and spice in a full bodied, wonderfully pure and large scaled style with ripe, well integrated tannin. It is accessible enough to enjoy,