Casa Lapostolle, Clos Apalta Vintage:2022 A broadranging and wonderfully elegant

A broadranging and wonderfully elegant array features notes of spice

There is good richness to the supple

but as always

Not really my style of wine

most of which is young vines of 15+ years though there is a parcel approximating 15% of the total with ~40 years of age)

Casa Lapostolle, Clos Apalta Vintage:2022 A broadranging and wonderfully elegantThe 2017 Clos Apalta is the 20th vintage of this wine that was produced with a blend of 48% Carmenere, 26% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot from organic and biodynamic certified vineyards on granite soils. It fermented with indigenous yeasts for four to five weeks, with manual punch down of the cap, mostly in 7,500 liter French oak vats and 18% in new French barrique. Malolactic was in new French oak barrels, and the levage lasted