2010 Pavillon de Léoville Poyferré, St Julien, Bordeaux

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2010 Pavillon de Léoville Poyferré, St Julien, BordeauxFrom the fruit of Leoville Poyferres younger vines in the heart of St Julien and mirroring the style of its big brother, the Pavillon is strikingly pure and refined. The nose gives bright, fresh fruit Morello cherries, sloes and hints of cedar and oak. Very much an example of a modern, flashy St. Julien, the palate is dense and opulent full of the soft, yielding fruit for which the 2009's are famous, all held taut by a fine weave of tannic structure.

Very sweet entry

Manetti compares 2010 to 2006 but feels the latter is more approachable

The Frapin family have been vinegrowers and distillers in Charentes since 1270

Real drive

Vargellas is located in the hotter eastern sector and it is significant that the selected grapes were farmed on the higher terraces

94/100 Robert Parker- Wine Advocate- May 2011

The nose is replete with tea and sponge cake

5% of the wine is aged in wood before spring bottling and the ensuing lengthy somnolence wherein the alchemical process of autolysis weaves its patient magic over nearly a decade

resulting in a bright

using a mix of 35% Chardonnay

with gentle crushed rocks

almost exotic

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