Solidly built, this has an abundant but fine-grained structure, which supports a core of steeped plum, sweet bay, red and black tea and singed sandalwood notes. The long finish offers a lingering mineral note and savory echo. Terrific effort for the vintage. Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2026 through 2038.

One of my favorite châteaux, the 2021 Château Hosanna is 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc from 4.5 hectares of blue clay soils in the heart of Pomerol. Harvest between September 24 and October 6, it has a vivid opaque purple hue to go with beautiful black and blue fruits, iron, graphite, and damp earth-like aromas and flavors. It's rich, medium-bodied, and has good concentration and ripe yet building tannins. This quintessential Pomerol deserves 4-5 years of bottle age and will shine over the following 15-20 years.

The 2021 Hosanna offers a solid showing in bottle, mingling aromas of cassis and minty blueberries with notions of baking chocolate, licorice and pencil shavings. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and layered, it's comparatively rich for the vintage, with sweet, powdery tannins and a spicy finish.

This is polished and fragrant, expressing notes of plums, mulberries, chocolate, nutmeg and hazelnuts. Medium- to full-bodied, silky and elegant with creamy layers of dark fruit. Very fine tannins. Long and seamless. Try after 2026.

Ripe and fragrant black fruit on the nose, cherries and blackcurrants. Grippy, vibrant and rich, an element of quite perfumed fruit here. It tastes on the border of being overly ripe in terms of fruit concentration, but has a very lean, direct texture that is streamlined with an undercurrent of liquorice, cola and salty minerality. It comes together nicely on the chalky, slightly spiced finish. Charming and confident.