Domaine Laurent Habrard – Grand Classique 2018 – Crozes-Hermitage

The nose is fruity, precise and offers a small fleshiness as well as a beautiful, gourmand and precise fruit. It reveals notes of ripe lemon, ripe quince and small notes of juicy kumquat associated with a touch of fleshy / juicy peach, orange, fine hints of exotic fruit as well as a very discreet hint of flowers tangerine and sense of place. The mouth is fruity, fresh, elegant, well-balanced, racy and offers fat (beautiful finesse of the fat), roundness, a beautiful finesse of the grain, a fine tension, a fine acidulous frame, a fine racy minerality, a fine density , juiciness as well as a beautiful definition. On the palate this wine expresses notes of fleshy / juicy quince, fleshy Williams pear and small notes of vine peach associated with fine touches of mandarin / dried zest, quenette / passion fruits as well as a subtle hint of mesocarp, flowers, sense of place and a very discreet hint of pepper. Good length and persistence.