2014 Gloria Cru Bourgeois St Julien (Case - 12/75cl)

The Château Gloria 2014 has a focused, straight-laced bouquet with strict redcurrant and wild strawberry fruit, tightly wound at first but opening with aeration, tobacco and even flint emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with firm, dry tannin, a little chalkiness under those broody black fruit, the foundation of a classic, almost austere finish the nevertheless offers length and sustain. This actually harks back to the fine old Glorias of the past, a little rustic perhaps, but a wine that I think will blossom in bottle. This will need to prove itself in bottle. 89-91/100 Neal Martin. Decanter 16.75/20