Made from 88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet Franc, the 2019 d'Aiguilhe is medium to deep garnet-purple colored. It needs a little swirling to reveal notes of crushed black cherries, black raspberries, and violets, plus wafts of...

The 2019 Alcee is a blend of 96% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc. Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, it bursts with notes of wild blueberries, boysenberries, and rose oil, plus suggestions of cardamom and tilled soil...

Earthy, unfussy, charming, fully open at this point, packed with blackberry and loganberry fruits, touch of cloves, incense, rosemary spice. Harvest September 25 and October 2, 3.53ph. 2.5ha plot of clay limestone soils...

Some evolution in the colour, just slight bricking around the edges, delivering a ton of creamy blackberry fruits, toasted almonds, freshly cut herbs, incense. 40% new oak barrels, Jerome Aigurre winemaker, Thomas Duclos...

Consistently the most powerful of the Bishop Rey bottlings, this is concentrated and intense, great structure. The ruby colour is beginning to brick around the edges, melting the tannins as it approaches full drinking...