2010 Clos des Jacobins
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This is the highest alcohol that I have felt/seen in the lineup - a real sign of how the Right Bank struggled with over-concentration compared to the Left Bank in 2010. Gives a dried fruit feel, fig and prune, although you will still find beautifully concentrated incense, cinnamon, cocoa pods and espresso notes.
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Jeannie Cho Lee MW
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
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Dark purplish crimson. Marmite (yeast extract) nose and then some ripe fruit in competition with firm tannins. Reasonable structure and noticeable ambition. Just a bit drying on the end. By no means luscious! (JR)
This wine has turned out well and is one of the strongest efforts from this estate in many a year. Three-fourths Merlot and the rest mostly Cabernet Franc, the wine offers up oodles of sweet black raspberry, camphor and black currant along with some forest floor and roasted herbs. Super-fruity, opaque ruby/purple, medium to full-bodied, hedonistic and lush, it should drink nicely for at least 10-12+ years.