2020 Cap de Mourlin

Tasted on multiple occasions, the 2020 Château Cap De Mourlin is a charming, medium-bodied Saint-Emilion offering textbook aromas and flavors of ripe red and black fruits, iron, new leather, and lead pencil shavings, with a hint of flowers emerging with time in the glass. It's balanced, has solid mid-palate depth, ripe tannins, and is just a pretty, elegant 2020 that will evolve for 15 years if well stored.

The 2020 Cap de Moulin lacks definition on the nose. This is a bit underwhelming compared to its showing from barrel as if pushed too hard in the winery. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins yet a little monotonous, and it lacks joie de vivre on the finish. Disappointing in the context of its barrel showing.

The 2020 Cap de Mourlin is unyielding and angular, with limited fruit, depth and freshness. Bitter, astringent tannins make this hard to taste.