Saint Veran Clos de Poncetys, Domaine Guffens-Heynen 2023

As I reported during élevage, the 2023 Saint-Véran Clos de Poncetys is an especially flamboyant wine, bursting with reductive aromas of mandarin oil, smoke, iodine and toasted nuts. Medium- to full-bodied, satiny and incisive, it's rich but youthfully tightly wound, with racy acids and a long, saline, gently honeyed finish. Only four barrels were bottled.

Guffens has selected four barrels of the 2023 Saint-Véran Clos de Poncetys to bottle separately, for the first time since 2018. It's one of the most flamboyant wines in the range, mingling exotic aromas of mandarin, musky peach and pear with notions of iodine, white flowers and smoky reduction, followed by a medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping palate underpinned by tangy acids. In its rare fusion of fruit and reduction, texture and tension, it's the quintessential Guffens-Heynen wine.