Château le Temple 2022 – Médoc

The nose is fruity, fleshy, and offers a fine straightness, a good definition, and a slight concentration. Ripe and vibrant fruit. It reveals notes of boysenberry, cassis, and small notes of roasted-juicy small red fruits associated with fine hints of licorice, cinnamon, as well as discreet hints of blueberry, cherry blossom, and a discreet hint of flint. The palate is fruity, well-balanced and offers juiciness, suavity, a mineral structure, a good definition, a certain juiciness, suppleness, gourmandise as well as a slight tension. On the palate, this wine expresses notes of pulpy/juicy blackberry, pulpy cherry and small notes of roasted-juicy berries associated with touches of bright red berries, as well as hints of star anise and licorice. Tannins are mellow and gourmand.