Charles Melton Nine Popes 2021 doña-blanca and dry-grown vines

and dry-grown vines

A complex nose with floral notes

” says Vincent Estevenin

Defaix’s wine is sourced from a sub-plot of 35-year-old vines in a cool terroir close to the Serein River—a site that lends this wine its mineral backbone

Charles Melton Nine Popes 2021 doña-blanca and dry-grown vinesLovely deep colour. Nice bright crimson edge to the colour. Opens on nose with a delightful spicy licorice all sorts amalgam of sweet perfume and spice, although 50% new oak was used, it remains in the background as a support to the exotic aromatics. Licorice and meat stock flavours lead into a plush rounded structure, with an excellent volume of finely wrought tannins to help shepherd this wine many years into the future.