Chateau de Valandraud 2020 St. Emilion Bordeaux 3 playful aromatics feature tropical fruit

playful aromatics feature tropical fruit and melon

This is a thrilling set of wines from Hall

even though this is the lightest-bodied and most accessible vintage of the 2012-2013-2014 trio here

above the usual fog line

27% Petit Verdot

Chateau de Valandraud 2020 St. Emilion Bordeaux 3 playful aromatics feature tropical fruit99 Points Rare release of one of Bordeaux's top scoring wines. 99 Points Jeb Dunnuck: "One of the wines of the vintage is Jean Luc Thunevin's 2020 Chteau Valandraud, which comes from the cooler, eastern side of Saint Emilion. Exhibiting a dense purple hue as well as an incredible perfume of crme de cassis, ripe black cherries, violets, new leather, and an almost Hermitage like burning embers character, it hits the palate with full bodied richness,