"The 2022 vintage of Clos des Briords is another in a long line of stellar wines from this beautiful vineyard. Only the oldest vines in the domaine’s 4.4 hectares here are bottled as Clos des Briords, so that the vines range from fifty to more than seventy years of age that go into this Cuvée Vieilles Vignes. The bouquet is deep and very refined, offering up scents of lime, lemon, breadfruit, sweet leesy tones, white flowers, lovely salinity, complex minerality and just a touch 11 of iodine in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and complex, with lovely soil signature, a fine core, sound framing acids and lovely length and grip on the seamlessly balanced finish. In the warm summer of 2022, the acids here seem a bit lower than usual, but I have seen vintages like this of Clos de Briords age effortlessly twenty-five or thirty years, so I have no intention of sounding the alarm bells with this beautiful 2022 version! 2023-2050.
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