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95 JG. "Ghislaine Barthod has made one of the most magical bottles of her entire career with her 2009 les Cras. The bouquet is deep, pure and beautifully reserved, as it offers up a very pure mélange of red and black cherries, blood orange, raw cocoa, both violets and roses, a touch of vanillin oak and a gloriously complex base of minerality. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, very pure and flat out stunning, with a great core of sappy fruit, ripe, suave tannins, sound acids and great length and grip on the utterly compelling finish. A great young bottle of les Cras." John Gilman, View From the Cellar #30, Dec 2010 |