| Article number: | P-3289 |
| Availability: | In stock |
Wine Advocate 92 points - 92-94 - The 2016 de Pez appears to be benefiting from a long-term replanting program at the estate. This is a blend of 53% Merlot, 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3.5% Petit Verdot and 1.5% Cabernet Franc. The IPT is quite high at 80, and there is 13.9% alcohol. It has a pure and comely bouquet with black cherries and blackcurrant pastilles, just a touch of crushed violets that emerge with time. The palate is really quite lovely: very well balanced with a fine line of acidity, quite saline in the mouth, perhaps the finest tannic structure that I have encountered during many years of tasting this Saint Estephe, with a long persistent finish. Maybe this is the ”dark horse” of the appellation this year..April/2017