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Josh Raynolds - Vinous Media
Bright ruby-red. Fresh cherry and black raspberry on the nose, with complicating hints of candied lavender and licorice. Sappy and incisive, offering sweet dark berry and floral pastille flavors and a hint of spice cake. Shows impressive lift, focus and energy on the long, spice-tinged finish, with the floral note echoing emphatically.
93 John Gilman - View from the Cellar
The 2014 Les Garants from Pierre-Marie Chermette’s Domaine du Vissoux is a superb young wine, with great balance and mid-palate depth and plenty of underlying structure to carry it far into the future. The bouquet offers up a primary constellation of pomegranate, red and black cherries, wood smoke, a lovely base of soil, incipient notes of gamebird, fresh herbs and just a touch of oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and very elegant on the attack, with a sappy core, lovely soil signature, moderate tannins and fine length and grip on the suave and tangy finish. This is a terrific glass of wine already, but clearly there is more complexity to unlock here if one can exercise just a bit of patience. 2015-2025+.