(from Les Treux and Rouge du Bas). A brooding if attractively perfumed nose features spicy notes of plum, dark raspberry and soft wood spice. The round and velvet-textured flavors possess good volume and reasonable concentration though the lingering finish seems a bit flat and dull. There appears to be good underlying material so this could well come together, especially because the one thing that the 2017 vintage doesn’t lack is energy. (89-91)/2029+