dark berries and flowers introduce Mayard’s 2023 Châteauneuf-du-Pape

dark fruit

intense and powerful large-scaled flavors that exhibit fine intensity on the powerful

There is a lovely mouth feel to the attractively intense and well-concentrated flavors that coat the palate with dry extract before culminating in a refined

it's almost beyond belief

Philippe Charlopin-Parizot, Echezeaux other_regions_italy dark berries and flowers introduce(from En Orveaux). Generous oak fights with the aromas of spicy pomegranate, cherry and violet. The exceptionally rich, even suave, medium bodied flavors possess very good concentration, power and persistence on the mouth coating and sappy if somewhat sweet finish that I found borderline cloying. I suspect that this will become more interesting with age but for now, its not at the same level as the best of these grands crus.