Casa, Lapostolle Vintage:2017 especially when you add in

especially when you add in the mature mouth feel and taste

intense and well-detailed middle weight flavors that are quite saline in character

Slightly more evident though still moderate wood frames the spicier and more sauvage influenced nose of similar dark berries

pillowy and enveloping

Casa, Lapostolle Vintage:2017 especially when you add inI found the new and ambitious 2015 La Parcelle 8 very ripe, playing with over ripeness. Perhaps it's the combination of centenary vines and a warm and dry year that delivered very ripe and concentrated juice, and the wine hits the scale at 15% alcohol, with plenty of tannins. It reminds me of the wines from yesteryear, lacking today's freshness and balance. It matured in 100% new French oak barrels for 26 months. Will it ever absorb the oak? 15,660