Château de Rayne Vigneau

The 2017 Rayne-Vigneau offers up appealing allspice and baking bread notes with a core of green guava and ripe apricots plus a touch of applesauce. It's rich and spicy in the mouth with just enough freshness and a good, long finish.

Tasted blind. Mid gold colour. Waxy and broad on the nose, quite distinctive in the line-up. Full bodied and fleshy on the palate. This is a fat, decadent style with layers of marmalade, toasted spices and candied orange fruit. The finish is one of crystallised ginger and poached pear.

This is full of dried apricot and peach character with lemon rind. It’s full-bodied, very rich and layered with gorgeous fruit. Intense, botrytis-spice and apricot flavors. Drink or hold.