spice-accented red fruit and floral pastille flavors with superb clarity

it spent 15 months in 25% each of new French oak

The 1997 clearly belongs in this flight of milestones

Suave red and dark berry flavors are complicated and deepened by exotic spicecake and sweet licorice

The 2012 Pavie-Macquin shows how appealing the best wines from this vintage are

Gonon, Saint-Joseph Oliviers Blanc Vintage:2019 spice-accented red fruit and floralBrilliant straw yellow. Fresh, deep pitched tropical and pit fruit aromas are complemented by suggestions of honey and lemon zest. Ripe and fleshy on the palate, showing sharp definition to the energetic peach, pineapple and tangerine flavors. Finishes silky, focused and very long, displaying repeating peachiness and building mineral and floral qualities. Raised in oak demi muids, all of them neutral. Josh Raynolds