2024, Domaine de Cambes, CÔTES-DE-BOURGBordeaux Blend: 100% Merlot. The 2024 Domaine de Cambes, 100% Merlot, is soft and caressing on the palate. Spice, new leather, dried rose petal, leather and cedar weave through a core of red toned fruit. This forward, supple Ctes de Bourg from the Mitjaville family is impeccable. 90 92 Antonio Galloni, Vinous (2025). The 2024 Domaine des Cambes has a relatively more exotic bouquet that you might misconstrue as deriving from a more clement season.

"Pym-Rae" combines both middle names of his first two children

confident tannic frame with fully charged ripe blackberry and raspberry fruits

The texture is dense and tightly wound for now

but it is quite restrained as to detail

Subtle aromas of ripe citrus and orchard fruit are backed by a textured palate with a bitter

This is bright and well handled

more Pinot and more definition

sweet fruit

suave and seamless

and sad to say

The fruit does not taste cooked but has become a little squashy

2023 is a blend of 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc