Château Malartic Lagravière 2019 – Pessac-Léognan, Grand Cru Classé

The nose is fresh, juicy, elegant and offers a fine concentration as well as a nice pulpiness. It reveals notes of bright peach, crushed apple and more lightly lemon, kumquat associated with touches of lychee, quenette, fine hints almost sweet zest, passion fruit as well as a subtle hint of iodine and toasted almonds. The palate is fruity, balanced and offers juiciness, radiance, a certain purity, gourmandize, a juicy / tangy frame, roundness, a little unctuosity, sapidity, freshness as well as a good definition. On the palate this wine expresses notes of quenette, lychee and more slightly of juicy kumquat associated with juicy / bright nectarine, passion fruit, pink grapefruit as well as discreet hints of flowers of acacia, iodine, racy gravels and a subtle hint of toasted almond. Good length. Presence of an imperceptible hint of mandarin mesocarps on the finish / persistence.