Château Puygueraud 2022

Ripe and cool blue fruits on the nose with an appealing salty minerality. Supple and lean, excellently textured though, straight and sharp with bite and tang to the fruits but carefully controlled leaving you wanting more. Great energy, bounce and freshness. Really enjoyable if super clean, lean and austere right now in the powdery sensation that’s left on the tongue as well as the oyster shell minerality. Easy drinking with elegance and an appealing juicy kick on the finish. Tasted twice. Harvest 7 – 29 September. Ageing; 16 – 18 months; 30% new barrel, 30% old barrel, 20% cement. Derenoncourt consultants. Drinking window: 2025-2032. (Georgina Hindle,decanter.com)