honeyed gold fruits and smoked earth

there's just a hint of toast on the nose

leather and plenty of earth scents introduces tension-filled and intensely mineral-driven medium weight flavors

sexy fruit and plush tannins

underbrush and oak nuances

Ballot Millot Vintage:2020 honeyed gold fruits and smoked(vinified with ~30% whole clusters). Here the nose is both more expressive and decidedly more floral in character with its aromas of fresh red berries, earth and a hint of the sauvage. There is again fine energy and volume as well as a more refined mouthfeel to the middle weight flavors that exude a bracing minerality on the bitter cherry inflected finale. This could use better depth, but the underlying material appears to be present for that to occur