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What richness, variations, contradictions which complement each other in this bouquet! It shines with its ability to create the link between each of them, whether notes of graphite, blackberries, roasting, black cherries or confectionery! The demonstrative symbiosis of the bouquet is perfectly assimilated by the palate which shines with a thousand lights! The energy counters the ardor of the vintage, while the structure favors the skills dedicated to freshness and temperament. Thus, Clos Manou takes up the challenge of a path with the ambition of being harmonious, coherent, from the attack to the finish, having taken care to prepare the ground with an impeccable olfactory character. The tannins are suave, velvety and yet as relevant as they are vigorous. It is not concentration that is most important, it is an eye for detail, the ability to create a great wine without exuberant artifice. The precision of a cyclist who wins a time trial... Stéphane Dief masters the time and the stages! It must be said that he worked hard, on the road and in the vineyard. A yellow jersey that can count on a team as motivated as him. A champion! 2028-2050
The 2022 Clos Manou has a well-defined and succinct bouquet with blackberry, wild hedgerow, blue fruit and crushed stone aromas unfurling with aeration. This is heads above other Médoc wines that I tasted from this flight. The palate is medium-bodied, detailed and very harmonious, with seamlessly integrated oak, a fluidity that marks this out and exquisite mineralité on the finish. This is brilliant.
Vivid cherry red, sage and freshly cut herbs on the aromatics, so happy to come back to this wine and find it still delivering on all cylinders. Plump bilberry and blueberry fruits, cigar box and clove spices, leans in to the vintage without straying over the line, chalky tannins add lift. Was a buy En Primeur and remains a buy today.