Château de Malleret Haut-Médoc Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel 2022

At a great moment to begin drinking, but will continue to deliver for another five to eight years, plenty of spiced blackberry fruit, eucalyptus and sappy tannins, with black chocolate, cocoa bean, fresh redcurrant, juice. 33% new oak for ageing. Good texture, sculpted, well expressed if a touch drying on the finish. Best since Malleret 2016, although less muscular than it was in that exceptional vintage.