Picque Caillou Vintage:2009

Picque Caillou Vintage:2009A moderate tarry spine runs through a core of dark plum and currant fruit, with a flicker of roasted savory on the finish. Modest in scale, showing nice energy. Drink now through 2018. 800 cases made. JM

placing cedary aromas around bright red-berry aromas

Then a bit lower-pitched in the mouth than the Villero and much more tannic on the back end

The finish alone is eternal

and blackberry

This is quite an elegant wine with lovely harmony and strikingly good balance

(from Les Boirettes and Champ Jendreau)

Ample and beautifully resonant on the palate

with very friendly raspberry ganache

(91-93)/2023+

quite mineral-driven and precise

This is really very good for such young vines

A perfectly good if not exceptional Gevrey villages that should reward mid-term cellaring