cassis and tobacco spices

Medium in body

A beautifully if subtly layered nose flashes really lovely complexity with its pure array of spiced pear

Give it another year or two to flesh out

Try now with food or wait until 1999

Marc Delienne, Fleurie Abbaye Road Size:6x1.5L cassis and tobacco spicesThe 2015 Fleurie Abbaye Road is superb, bursting with scents of creamy black cherries, grilled meat, dried rose petals and wood smoke. On the palate, it's full bodied, layered and complete, with a multidimensional core, considerable concentration and remarkable energy despite its rich, atypically powerful profile. When I first encountered this wine, shortly after release, it showed a touch of volatile acidity that was imperceptible in these bottles.