Scores
92
Vinous
The 2022 La Grave offers an attractive mix of fruit intensity and vibrancy, a pretty appealing combination, especially in this vintage. Gravel, dried flowers, mint, charcoal, licorice and spice meld into a core of dark-fleshed fruit. La Grave is deceptively medium in body, but it packs plenty of punch.
94
Decanter
Supple and juicy with nicely textured tannins that give both a cool blue fruit, slate edge as well as some bounce. There's such an ease about this, balanced and harmonious, nothing too much, it's certainly not too opulent or tannic, but delivers an almost delicate take on the vintage. Linear and focussed, stylish and confident with a hint of the Pomerol power and seduction underneath. Nice potential here. Confident but quietly charming. I really like it.