This is tight but has creamy, round tannins and a juicy character. Blackberries, chocolate and spices on the medium-bodied palate. Chewy and polished.

A blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon and 16% Merlot the 2023 Lagrange offers up aromas of dark berries plums and cherries mingled with hints of pencil shavings and violets. Medium to full-bodied layered and fleshy with good depth supple tannins and a suave vibrant profile it's attractively seamless and complete.

The 2023 Lagrange contains no Petit Verdot this year. Matured in 60% new oak the aromatics demand a bit of coaxing in the glass eventually revealing blackberry and cedar aromas and just a touch of graphite quite strict and focused. The palate is medium-bodied with very pliant tannins on the entry ensuring that this will be an approachable Lagrange. Pure-fruited and gently grippy there is admirable depth to this Saint-Julien revealing just a hint of brine toward the saline finish. This is a "solid" wine if perhaps without the flair of the 2022. It will require four or five years in bottle but should drink well for the next 20 years or more.