Tasted at one of Cadman fine wine’s tastings this delicious and complex right bank Bordeaux was one of the stars. In fact the wine of the evening for me was the Leoville Barton 1996 (a wine of stunning depth and complexity see our tasting notes from the Barton tasting for more details), but on returning after savouring tasting this to the Bel-Air Royere it still delivered plenty of enjoyment.

We showed this wine at a birthday tasting that WanderCurtis laid on recently and it went down brilliantly, supporting the idea that one should look out for lesser known chateaux in great years such as 2005. Currently on sale at Cadman.