92pts James Suckling

This is ripe and supple, but has an elegant, medium body and a long, silky finish that make it very easy to enjoy right now. Seductive blueberry character.

Winemaker Notes

Extreme weather conditions resulted in an exceptional vintage
A particularly wet winter and spring promised good yields. One of the best summers of the decade,
with a long dry period, brought power and concentration. A remarkable late season, with substantial
differences in temperatures, ensured elegance for this exceptional vintage. Each of these stages,
with an extreme climatology, has been chained with a perfect tempo: This is the singularity of this
vintage.
Flowering was rapid and uniform and summer extremely hot and dry. But Malartic vines’ deep roots
were able to find water reserves in the clay-limestone subsoil and benefit fully from the summer heat.
The grapes changed colour with the same uniformity as the flowering.
After the very dry conditions, the rain on 13 September (40 mm) was welcome. An Indian summer
lasted through to the end of the harvests with some big differences between the day and night-time
temperatures, encouraging the accumulation of anthocyanins and aromatic richness.