JD
99
Jeb Dunnuck
JS
97
James Suckling
RP
98+
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
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Tesseron Vineyards 'Pym-Rae' 2018

8 units available online.
Product description

After a slightly late bud break and f lowering due to a rainy winter and moderate sunlight in spring, summer temperatures brought back balance in the vineyard, with sunny days and cool nights. Benefiting from an essential oceanic influence, ripening occurred gently and successfully over time. The organic and biodynamic methods are paying off, bringing exquisite balance to the vineyard and thus the wine. The rewarding result shows intense precise fruit, soft and deep tannins. It is perfectly balanced with great freshness characteristic from our terroir. A mythical vintage!

99 Points - Jeb Dunnuck

The 2018 Pym-Rae can be thought of as a hypothetical mix of the 2016 and 2017, with more sexiness and opulence than the 2017 and a touch more elegance and precision than the 2016. Wonderful cassis, violets, tobacco, lead pencil, and chocolate notes define this beauty, and it's full-bodied, with a gorgeous sense of elegance and purity, perfect tannins, and an incredible finish. This stunningly majestic, flawlessly balanced Mountain Cabernet already offers pleasure yet will benefit from 4-5 years of bottle age, and it should be a 50-year wine. Bravo!

98+ Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2018 Pym-Rae reveals a deep garnet-purple color and a slightly reticent, slowly emerging nose of freshly crushed blackcurrants, ripe blackberries and wild blueberries with suggestions of garrigue, red currant jelly, mossy tree bark and truffles plus wafts of bouquet garni and Sichuan pepper. The palate is full-bodied and fantastically concentrated with tightly wound layers of black and red berry notions, framed by very firm yet beautifully ripe tannins and amazing tension, finishing with epic length and loads of mineral sparks.

97 Points - James Suckling

This is extremely aromatic with blackberries, black pepper and spice. Dried flowers, too. Full-bodied with very tight, fine tannins and a racy, refined finish. Raspberries and currants at the end. Very fine and polished. The center fruit is so pure. Aged in 60% new wood barrels and 40% concrete. Drink in 2023 and onwards.