2023 Lespault Martillac
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Coming from the gravelly soils around Léognan, the 2023 Château Lespault-Martillac offers ripe black cherries, smoked tobacco, chocolate, and spice nuances. It's medium-bodied, nicely concentrated, and balanced, with solid mid-palate depth, ripe, polished tannins, beautiful purity and precision, and outstanding length. Give it a few years of bottle age and enjoy over the following two decades. Drink 2027-2045.
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James Suckling
Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
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The 2023 Lespault-Martillac is an attractive, open-knit wine. Sweet floral notes meld into a core of bright red-toned fruit, pomegranate, blood orange and sweet spice. Soft and caressing, with fine balance, the 2023 is a terrific choice for drinking over the near and medium term. The supple finish is quite lovely. Tasted two times.
The 2023 Lespault-Martillac has a pleasant nose that opens in the glass: blackberry, cedar and black olive tapenade scents, the oak neatly enmeshed. (A second bottle at the château is a tad more exuberant.) The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins. Fine acidity, quite fresh and saline, though just a bit short on the finish. But overall, this should drink well for the next decade.
Red and black fruits, scorched earth, graphite, and tobacco notes all emerge from the 2023 Château Lespault-Martillac, a quintessential Pessac that's medium-bodied and has a deep, layered mouthfeel, beautiful tannins, and outstanding length. The 2023 is 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, and the balance Petit Verdot, aging in 35% new barrels.