Louis-Benjamin Dagueneau, XXI Vingt et un other_regions

Louis-Benjamin Dagueneau, XXI Vingt et un other_regionsThe XXI is the total sum of the 2021 vintage due to frost but mainly rot caused by too much rain at the end of the season. According to its maker, the domain lost around 60% of the crop. This is definitely a Sauvignon Blanc with its green capsicum and mint flavors; often, the varietal character is less overt in the Daguneau styles. It's light in body with silken flesh built through the mid palate. The 2021 offers some nice texture and lees derived

the parcel is situated directly below Perrières and abutting Combettes)

cream and mineral

dark cherry aromas spiked with earth and a whiff of leather

and small-production Barbarescos from the Asili and Montefico vineyards

Here there is better wood integration framing the pretty and ripe blend of both red and black fruit that displays a subtle animale character as well as notes of underbrush

Balsamic and truffle notes pepper the palate of this handsome Barolo

There’s nothing attenuated or ethereal on the palate – it's remarkably dense

In most vintages

41% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Petit Verdot

(from 25+ year old vines)

The delicious and attractively textured medium-bodied flavors possess fine mid-palate concentration along with fine length on the mouth coating finish

together with more volatile notes of wood polish and something sour that I cannot quite put my finger on