Tour Mons Vintage:2010 sweet red berrie and spices

sweet red berrie and spices add nuance on the silky

snappy tannins frame flavors of crushed black cherry

Underneath all of that plush fruit is a stony core of structure and myriad spicy complexities that should sustain it for decades to come

(92-94)/2035+

This is a deceptive wine as it appears unduly easy yet it’s not simple and possesses sufficient buried structure to permit this to improve for 5 years and last for 10 to 12

Tour Mons Vintage:2010 sweet red berrie and spicesThe 2010 La Tour de Mons is the same blend as the 2009, although the nose is cut from a different cloth, darker fruit, more black than red, graphite and tobacco, a little Pauillac in style. The palate is medium bodied with supple tannin, plenty of blackberry and bilberry fruit, well judged acidity and a dash of white pepper sprinkled over the cedary finish. There is more backbone here compared to the 2009 and a little more persistence on the finish.