2020 Tourelles de Longueville

The 2020 Les Tourelles de Longueville has a ripe bouquet with predominantly red fruit—raspberry and cranberry— and some creamy oak to be subsumed with bottle age. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy tannins. It's quite a voluminous and forward wine, but like a couple of others, there's a touch of alcoholic warmth that blurs the finish. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.

Rich and generous, the 2020 Les Tourelles de Longueville exhibits aromas of dark berries, cigar wrapper and loamy soil, followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy palate. It's a giving, Merlot-driven cuvée that will drink well young.

Looking at the 2020 Les Tourelles De Longueville from the team at Pichon-Longueville Baron, this beauty is based on 64% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Cabernet Franc aged in just 30% new French oak. Ripe red and black fruits, sappy tobacco, melted chocolate, and spicy notes all emerge from this medium-bodied, round, supple, undeniably delicious Pauillac. It has the vintage’s fresher, focused style, yet there's plenty of charm here already. Drink bottles over the coming 15+ years.