IN BOND

Delivery 2024

Appellation – Saint-Emilion

Owner -Jonathan Maltus OBE

2010 vintage scored 100 points by Robert Parker

TASTING NOTES

“Restrained, savoury, deep and rich. Cocoa powder and liquorice bud character on the attack, this is extremely good quality and one of the wines of the vintage. Has walls and floors, is concentrated yet supple and needs ageing. Cabernet Franc is a grape that tends to shuts down in the early years and this will do so, so I suggest giving it a few years in bottle before opening, but there are ripe, seductive fruits here and it is punching above the vintage conditions. Michel Longo new vineyard manager (moving over from Pavie), Thomas Duclos consultant, Neil Whyte head winemaker. No Pontet Labrie, Le Carre nor Les Astries in the range this year. First year in the new 14 million new winery, designed by Sir Norman Foster. No chaptilisation, very late harvest into 3rd week of October.”
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux (May 2022)
Score: 96/100
Drink 2028-2042

“Polished and plush red with clove, dried lavender and dark-berry fruit. Full-bodied with firm, velvety and well-knit tannins. Lovely purity. Excellent length, too, with lingering spice notes. Lots to like. 80% cabernet franc and 20% merlot.”
James Suckling (May 2022)
Score: 94-95/100

“Continuing fully 80% Cabernet Franc and vinified in Maltus’s new winery, the 2021 Le Dome bursts with aromas of violets, blackberries, sweet soil tones and dark chocolate. Full-bodied, ample and fleshy, with lively acids and powdery tannins, this perfumed, charming wine is unusually seamless and integrated at this early stage. Does this vintage mark a stylistic evolution for this cuve?”
92-94 points.William Kelley, Wine Advocate.