Tasting Notes
Neal Martin 90?
The 2016 La Violette has a rich and heady bouquet with luscious black cherries and violet scents. It just needs more delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe and succulent tannins, a sweet core of black fruit laced with black pepper, but I find the dark chocolate-tinged finish here just too assertive, and it needs more refinement. Tasted at Bordeaux Index’s Ten Year On tasting.
Antonio Galloni 92-95
The 2016 La Violette is dense, powerful and authoritative in its expression of the vintage. Chocolate, black fruit, smoke, leather and grilled herbs, along with big tannins, give the wine its decidedly brooding, virile personality. Hints of tobacco, licorice and cedar add aromatic nuance. Tasted two times.
