Ballot Millot other_regions_australia This refreshing effort should drink

This refreshing effort should drink well immediately upon release

and peppery spice

Should be a wonderful follow-up to the splendid 2007 Dow--and very long-lived

fleshy and gourmand

This is not overly concentrated but the harmony of expression is impressive and I very much like the complex floral quality of the finale

Ballot Millot other_regions_australia This refreshing effort should drink(vinified with ~30% whole clusters). Here the nose is both more expressive and decidedly more floral in character with its aromas of fresh red berries, earth and a hint of the sauvage. There is again fine energy and volume as well as a more refined mouthfeel to the middle weight flavors that exude a bracing minerality on the bitter cherry inflected finale. This could use better depth, but the underlying material appears to be present for that to occur