Le Dome Half 2020

Le Dôme 2020 is a single-vineyard Bordeaux blend from St-Emilion on the right bank of the Gironde river in Bordeaux. A blend of 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot, Le Dôme is a Premier Grand Cru Classé wine produced by the highly respected winemaker Jonathan Maltus and has its roots in the ‘garagiste` movement of the 1990s. Having outgrown the movement, it now ranks among the finest wines produced in the St-Emilion appellation. "Restrained, savoury, deep and rich. Cocoa powder and liquorice bud character on the attack, this is extremely good quality and one of the wines of the vintage. Has walls and floors, is concentrated yet supple and needs ageing. Cabernet Franc is a grape that tends to shuts down in the early years and this will do so, so I suggest giving it a few years in bottle before opening, but there are ripe, seductive fruits here and it is punching above the vintage conditions." Jane Anson, 2022