2020 Connetable Talbot, Saint-Julien

The 2020 Talbot is a hugely promising wine. It offers up an exotic mélange of inky dark fruit, chocolate, licorice, gravel, lavender and menthol. Brooding in the glass, with broad shoulders and tons of intensity, the 2020 is a Talbot that marries power, breadth and savory intensity with notable stylishness and tons of personality. Impressive.

Sweet-tobacco and berry character with some cigar box. Medium body, firm tannins and a fresh-herb aftertaste to the fruit. Second wine of Talbot.

Tasted by Jane Anson(at Primeur week tastings in Bordeaux, 01 May 2021)

Enjoyable with a feeling of substance to the blackberry and hawthorn hedgerow fruits, gentle woodsmoke notes as it opens. Appealing and easy to enjoy.

Drinking Window 2023 - 2032

Medium-bodied, early drinking, soft, forward, bright, spicy, fresh red currant and espresso filled wine that will show best in its youth. 88-86

Tasted blind. Deep greyish crimson. Very sweet aroma of red fruits. Raspberries! Light, juicy, idiosyncratic and a bit lean overall but very fresh, herbal. (JH)