2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Priorat with silky tannins

with silky tannins

Long and very polished

ample and intense perfume with fruity

as they are focusing their work there

2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Priorat with silky tanninsStately ruby red, raspberry and cassis fruits, still young, needs another few years to fully open and integrate, but everything is there for a brilliant wine with pleasure. This is a chteau that always takes its time, and needs half an hour in the glass to reveal smoked vanilla bean, sweet raspberry puree, turmeric spice, fresh acidity and crushed mint. Not showing quite as well as it did at a chteau vertical last year, but this is still a wonderful