Clos du Marquis 2016 Size::6 Bottle Case The bouquet is very intense

The bouquet is very intense at the moment with small black cherries

742 (2014 base) has really opened up since I last tasted it about a year ago

"This reluctantly opens with a complex amalgam of blueberry

The red currant and mulberry flavours are generous and long

The palate opens with abundant fruit-filled flavours

Clos du Marquis 2016 Size::6 Bottle Case The bouquet is very intenseThe 2016 Clos du Marquis was picked from 30 September to 19 October and consists of 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc, matured in 55% new oak. Yields came in at 40 hectoliters per hectare and the alcohol at 13. 55%. The bouquet is very intense at the moment with small black cherries, incense, iris and a touch of shucked oyster shells. The palate is beautiful, perhaps one of the most powerful that I came across in Saint Julien,