Tasting Notes
Vinous 90?
The 2016 La Violette has a rich and heady bouquet with luscious black cherries and violet scents. It just needs more delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe and succulent tannins, a sweet core of black fruit laced with black pepper, but I find the dark chocolate-tinged finish here just too assertive, and it needs more refinement. Tasted at Bordeaux Index’s Ten Year On tasting.
Robert Parker 97
Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 La Violette opens with fragrant cigar box, black tea, wilted roses and spice cake scents with a core of warm black plums, black cherries and mulberries plus a hint of star anise. Medium to full-bodied, the palate delivers layer upon layer of black fruits and floral sparks, framed by firm, very finely grained tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and fragrant. Beautiful.
Anticipated maturity: 2022-2056

