2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Saint-Julien with hints of barley sugar

with hints of barley sugar

The medium-bodied palate is silky and fresh with intense

This is a wine that still follows a more powerful profile

Fermented with indigenous yeasts it remains in tank for 30 days on lees to build complexity

2005 | Château Gruaud Larose | Saint-Julien Saint-Julien with hints of barley sugarStately 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