Mas Granier – Camp de L’Oste 2017 – Sommières, Languedoc

The nose is elegant, racy and offers a beautiful bright fruit and gourmandize. It reveals notes of bright cherry, lilac, cherry blossom small bright red berries, small notes of cassis associated with a touch of bright wild strawberry, lilac as well as fine hints of fresh olive leaf, a discreet hint of tobacco, minerality and an imperceptible almost iodine/saline hint (in the background). The palate is fresh, mineral and offers a beautiful balance, a mineral/fresh frame, a beautiful definition, a beautiful guideline, a beautiful gourmandize, fat as well as fullness, suavity and a fine chiseled side. On the palate this wine expresses notes of bright cherry, bright blackberry, small notes of cherry blossom, plum flowers associated with touches of wild strawberry as well as small hints of liquorice, fresh olive leaf, black olive, local copse, discreet hints of spices, a subtle iodine hint and caramelization (in the background). A very discreet hint of chocolate and toasted hazelnut on the persistence. Good length.