Tour Mons Vintage:2010 smoky minerals and licorice

smoky minerals and licorice

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

I suspect that it will better harmonize with 4 to 5 years of cellaring

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 smoky minerals and licoriceThe 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.