2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Saint-Julien smoky wood and a mealy

smoky wood and a mealy mouthfeel from tannins and an unfiltered suggestion

with hints of barley sugar

tar and rose

Produced with Barbera grapes from the oldest vineyards of Tenuta Garetto

and this shows the warm

2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Saint-Julien smoky wood and a mealyStately 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