Alverne 2015

Seductive and slightly exotic aroma, with ripe but fresh red and black fruits and spice, even a hint of cinnamon. Rich and spicy on the palate too, a certain decadence, but no excess weight, the tannins already remarkably supple but not wimpy. You can smell/taste the expensive oak but it is much less obvious than you might expect – as with other Mitjavile-signature wines in which the more red-fruited character of the wines seem remarkably able to stand up to, and benefit from, tight-grained new oak. Likely to be drinkable relatively early but also age well.

Aromatic spicy the nose is smoky with red fruits, toasty with a hint of coffee. Rich and ripe in the middle succulent with black cherry, cassis, dark chocolate, damsons layers of flavour giving complexity. The tannins are fine and integrated the fruit at the back fresher with cinnamon spice on the long elegant finish. 2019-26