Ripe dark plums and spiced berries with a touch of mushrooms, dark chocolate and dried herbs on the nose. Medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins and a long, juicy finish. Firm and very well-made.

The 2023 Vieux Maillet is quite the extrovert. Blackberry, creme de cassis, licorice, cloves and a healthy dose of new oak are front and center. The 2023 is good, but it also feels a bit pushed in terms of extraction and oak.

The black cherry and chocolate aromas of this wine give style as well as weight. Dominated by Merlot, the wine is rounded, cut by acidity. Its tannins should soften shortly.

A dark, winey style, displaying notes of black cherry and currant preserves carried by a slightly tarry grip, with licorice and singed apple wood in the mix. Shows a savory edge through the slightly taut finish but also offers the depth to flesh out after modest cellaring. Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon.