Château de Respide – Callipyge 2020 – Graves

The nose is fruity and offers minerality, a certain power/intensity as well as a small crunchiness. It reveals notes of apple, quince small notes of peach associated with touches of mesocarp, honeysuckle, fine hints of lemon, a racy minerality and a discreet hint of pepper. The palate is fruity and offers juiciness, suavity, freshness, a good definition, a certain tension, precision, minerality, a small aerial side in the approach and an acidulous frame. On the palate this wine expresses notes of lemon, acidulous/crunchy nectarine, small notes of apple associated with touches of crunchy pear, small notes of apple associated with touches of crunchy pear as well as hints of kumquat, honeysuckle, fine hints of lychee, ripe almond and carambola. Good length and persistence.