Bouland, Daniel 2022 Côte de Brouilly "Mélanie"

The superb 2022 "Cuvée Mélanie" is from 70 year-old vines on a hillside of volcanic blue schist. "The 2022 iteration is simply a brilliant young wine, offering up a deep, pure and sappy bouquet of black cherries, pomegranate, a touch of smoked 
meats, dark soil tones, just a hint of fresh thyme, sweet stem tones that add a lovely undertow of savoriness, roses and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, vibrant and complex, with a beautiful core of fruit, lovely soil inflection, ripe, buried tannins, tangy acids and excellent focus and balance on the long and utterly complete finish. This is eminently drinkable in its youthful charm, but has the underlying chassis of suave tannins to age long and gracefully and will be a far more impressive drink five to ten years down the road." John Gilman View from the Cellar