Château Tour de Bonnet Entre-Deux-Mers La Courrege

This, made from selected plots with 65% of CabSauv in a Lurton vineyard, is drinking remarkably well for claret only in its third year. Medium+ bodied, the fruit is round and ripe with a somewhat savoury character conferred by sour cherry notes, there is some earthy minerality, smooth balancing acidity and tannic structure with no asperity at all. For me, this is not yet up to the 91 points awarded by the RVF in its autumn FaV review, but with …