La Conseillante Pomerol - 2016 (750ml) Grenache This wine is just beginning

This wine is just beginning to emerge from a very closed state where it was unyielding and backward

and frightfully hard and tannic

and black raspberries also emerge on the palate of this full-bodied effort

The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain is prodigious

La Conseillante Pomerol - 2016 (750ml) Grenache This wine is just beginningThe 2016 La Conseillante is a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc aged in 70% new and 30% one year old French oak for 17 months. Deep garnet purple colored, it slips provocatively out of the glass with a lifted perfume of roses, candied violets and lavender over a core of warm red and black plums, chocolate box, unsmoked cigars and baked cherries with wafts of wild thyme and tilled soil. Medium bodied, the palate exudes polish and