Le Dôme St Emilion Grand Cru 2020

Nuanced crushed roses and incense on the nose, a little more understated than some. Textured grippy tannins, brambled blackberry and loganberry fruit, laced with cocoa bean, sweet cherry pie, flaky pastry, burnt oak on the finish, great quality, carefully confident. Score switched around with the 2019 from the last time I tasted these two wines – likely to go back and forth between them as they enter different periods of maturity. Neil Whyte winemaker, Jonathan Maltus owner, Thomas Duclos consultant. 80% new oak for ageing, malolactic in new oak.