Lovely ruby medium to deep colour. Sweet scents, almost strawberry or perhaps darker berries aromatic in the bouquet. A ripe but restrained sweet plum and raison flavour flows through the palate which is kept in check by a hint of acidity and some nice savoury tannins. Richly textured but smooth.

 

 

Richelieu in 2009 is made almost predominately from our best single block of Grenache. A mix of whole bunch and crushed fruit was fermented to dryness and then aged in only French oak barriques. Older oak is used to allow the gentle fruit expression of the old bush Grenache. Ageing on lees has given the palate greater weight and smoothness.