2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Double Magnum 3L On the palate this red

On the palate this red wine is a powerful wine with a nice balance between acidity and tannins

yet it's all so polished

and it presents in a more piercing and saline manner than in Larmandier's Brut wines

beautiful earthy

with smokey undertones and a lush

2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Double Magnum 3L On the palate this redStately ruby red, raspberry and cassis fruits, still young, needs another few years to fully open and integrate, but everything is there for a brilliant wine with pleasure. This is a chteau that always takes its time, and needs half an hour in the glass to reveal smoked vanilla bean, sweet raspberry puree, turmeric spice, fresh acidity and crushed mint. Not showing quite as well as it did at a chteau vertical last year, but this is still a wonderful