Domaine Sylvain Pataille Marsannay Rouge 2023

This is from Pataille’s small parcel in Es Chezots; a very cool site at the top of the hill in the Combe du Pré, where the conditions have produced an ethereal wine, that is fragrant without being heavy. In 2019, the warm year also bestowed a rewardingly ripe cherry fruit and an earthy complexity. Drinking Window 2021 - 2029.

A very fresh and quite cool nose freely offers up its array of red berries, earth and floral nuances. The sleek, delicious and impressively intense flavors culminate in a precise, focused and sneaky long finale. If this can add depth with a few years of bottle age, it could merit the upper end of my projected range. *Burghound Outstanding!*