Elodie et Marc Milhade, Château Recougne, Terra Recognita 2022 – Bordeaux Supérieur

The wine has a ruby color of medium intensity. The nose is tight at first and benefits from aeration. It then expresses notes of ripe and roasted fruits (morello cherry, red cherry, raspberry, strawberry, roasted cherry, a hint of blackcurrant), combined with toasted (coffee in the background, toasted hazelnut), spicy (licorice, black pepper in the background) and herbaceous (fresh tobacco, wild mint, blackcurrant bud) notes, as well as a hint of violet and peony. The palate is savory, with the bitterness of coffee and burnt wood on the attack. Then, it expresses notes of juicy morello cherry, blackberry, red cherry, blackcurrant, crushed wild strawberry, as well as liquorice, tonka bean, black pepper, a hint of violet, fresh tobacco and blackcurrant leaf in the background. The tannins are firm, chalky, powdery, slightly grippy. Nice acidity and persistence in the mouth with a good bitterness of cocoa and coffee on the persistence.