Prieure other_regions

Prieure other_regionsRipe Bing cherries, plums, spicy oak, and incense notes emerge from the 2020 Chteau Le Prieure, a medium to full bodied, nicely concentrated, seamless 2020 with building tannins and top notch purity. This exotic, complex 2020 needs 4 5 years to integrate its tannins and should cruise over the following decade.

If I didn’t do it

The wine will be easy to enjoy on release and over the next 7-10 years

olive tapenade and violet pastille on the evolved

The wine has a spicy nose with balsamic notes of aromatic herbs

This chiseled effort should also easily reward a decade or more of cellaring

with a chalky sensation and a finish that is a mixture of juiciness

loads of fruit and a clean finish

spice and more discreet earth influence

aged 17 months in American oak (35% new)

and juicy meat

It finishes very long

very dry and saline finale that delivers outstanding persistence