2022 Domaine Mayard Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge

Tasting notes

A beautifully rich, yet precise red packed tight with ripe red, black and blue fruits, blood orange zest, black olive, sage and dried florals that have been gently kissed with spice, sprinkled with Ceylon tea, textured dry from firm gravelly tannins and charged by tense acidity. A serious scaffold of structure keeps this tightly coiled and very focused as it moves through its arc, growing in mineral complexity, steering ferrous, adding wonderful depth and personality to the fruit. It’s pure and full of energy, with not a hair out of place, and ends over a very long tail that holds a chord of strawberry, plum and crushed gravel.