#pascal biotteau

A briary bubble-gum blast of smoky floral, earth aching and tangible, wet wood and cranberry exploding out of the clear, bright red. A fruit-shy stony wonder in the tongue, sharp crystalline berry seemingly buried under structure at first, then crescendoing vividly into dark raspberry and pomegranate tang. Cab-franc vegetal mellowed and hyphenated with obvious Cab grit and structure–though…