Château Beau-Site Haut-Vignoble (75cl, 14%)

Château Beau-Site Haut-Vignoble is a Saint-Estèphe red Bordeaux blend bottled at 14% ABV in a 750ml bottle. The estate draws on 20 vineyard plots across the appellation and is recognised by Le Guide Hachette des Vins. The wine is 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, vinified in traditional rectangular cement tanks with malolactic fermentation there. It matures for 12 to 15 months in an average of 50% new French oak barrels. The nose shows ripe black currant and dark cherry, toasted spice, tar, dark chocolate, smoky cedar and violet. The palate has vibrant black fruit, fine acidity, chewy tannins, graphite minerality and bay leaf, with a long finish of black currant, tobacco and gravelly mineral persistence.