Tasted blind at Farr Vintners horizontal, the 2006 Le Petit Mouton was a bit of a revelation. It displays more intense red fruit compared to its Pauillac peers with pencil shavings littered over raspberry and strawberry. There is such an infectious sense of joie-de-vivre here. The palate is medium-bodied with fine definition, crisp and tensile with good weight, showing fine elegance with a long, lightly spiced finish that does not seem to go dissipate after a minute. This seems to be blossoming in bottle, though my fear is that many will have already been consumed! Tasted April 2016. - Neal Martin

<b>Our visit</b> <object width="320" height="240"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7lCmKjY-Cso"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7lCmKjY-Cso" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="240"> </embed> </object> <b>My tasting notes: </b>Darker red core with a garnet rim. Sweet dark fruit aromas up front are followed by hints of honeycomb rich raspberry and a light touch of spun sugar. Soft with thin fruit on the front of the palate with decent tannins on the mid-palate. There is nice structure in the middle but the fruit never really shows up leaving lingering flavors of licorice. 70% Cabernet Sauvignon 14% Merlot 16% Cabernet Franc.