2019 La Dauphine
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The 2019 de la Dauphine is a beautiful wine with aromas of black fruit, blackcurrant, blackberry, spice and a touch of oak, followed by a rather dense, massive texture on the palate marked by structuring tannins and a long finish. It can be aged in the cellar for a few more years.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Neal Martin
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Young and unevolved, the 2019 Château De La Dauphine offers a ripe, powerful bouquet of smoked red and black fruits as well as tobacco leaf, graphite, and lead pencil. It's beautiful on the palate, offering medium-bodied richness, a balanced, layered mouthfeel, some chalky minerality, and a great finish. This classy, balanced, nicely concentrated 2019 will benefit from just a year or two in the cellar (it drinks just fine today with a decant) and will keep for a decade.
The 2019 Château de la Dauphine has a wonderful bouquet, beautifully defined, featuring raspberry coulis, singed leather and light rose petal aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, fresh and vibrant, and shows ample structure toward the piquant finish. Delightful.
The 2019 La Dauphine is a total knock-out. Rich, heady and explosive, La Dauphine possesses terrific energy and tons of volume. Super-ripe dark cherry, plum, tobacco, spice, new leather and chocolate all build in the glass. The 2019 is drop-dead gorgeous. Don't miss it.