2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Priorat Impressive now

Impressive now

Long and very polished

sophisticated finish

Drinkable but will develop even more in the bottle

2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Priorat Impressive nowStately 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