La Conseillante Pomerol - 2016 (750ml) Grenache Wine Advocate - 95 points

Wine Advocate - 95 points

and frightfully hard and tannic

and I was leaning toward giving it a three-digit score

This super-concentrated wine offers a spectacular nose of roasted coffee

The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain is prodigious

La Conseillante Pomerol - 2016 (750ml) Grenache Wine Advocate - 95 pointsThe 2016 La Conseillante is a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc aged in 70% new and 30% one year old French oak for 17 months. Deep garnet purple colored, it slips provocatively out of the glass with a lifted perfume of roses, candied violets and lavender over a core of warm red and black plums, chocolate box, unsmoked cigars and baked cherries with wafts of wild thyme and tilled soil. Medium bodied, the palate exudes polish and