Domaine de l'Aurage Cotes de Castillon 2019

An up-and-coming winery on the Côtes de Castillon in the immediate vicinity of Saint Emilion, purchased by Louis Mitjavile in 2007 and now poised for great heights. Louis Mitjavile is in the process of changing the grape variety composition to 100% Merlot. Accordingly, he presents his fabulous 2018 vintage as accessible and ripe; sweet and ripe with no unpleasant tannic overhang, it is startlingly reminiscent of his father's wine, the legendary Château le Tertre Roteboeuf. Fresh black cherries in a profoundly spicy aromatic splendor, licorice, vanilla, clove and cedar on the nose, young, fruity and ethereally intense. Already an easy-drinking and elegant wine, cool and refined in texture, style and character. One of the sensitive wines of the vintage, which we attest a great future.