Pierre Ravaut – Clos Royer 2018 – Ladoix

The nose is fruity, fresh, well-controled/built (in precision) and offers a certain richness as well as elegance. It reveals notes of purple plum, wild blackberry and small notes of violet associated with touches of rose, cherry tail, small pulpy red berries as well as fine hints of sweet spices, vanilla and a discreet hint of crushed green cardamom. The palate is fruity, well-balanced and offers minerality, an acidulous frame, juiciness, a certain tension as well as dynamism. On the palate this wine expresses notes of crunchy / juicy cherry, acidulous / juicy purple plum and small notes of acidulous / juicy small red berries associated with touches of rose, lily as well as small hints of zan, almost saline racy minerality as well as discreet hints of green cardamom. Tannins are well-built. Good length.