2008 - Clos Puy Arnaud Cotes de Castillon

"From low yields of 24 hectoliters per hectare, proprietor Thierry Valette has produced a wine that is difficult to taste, although it is bursting with promise. It was one of a number of wines I tasted that had not yet completed malolactic fermentation, which is a positive sign. Super-concentrated and dense, but backward, unevolved, and not yet strutting its stuff, this should turn out to be an outstanding, relatively long-lived wine, especially for a Cotes de Castillon." -The Wine Advocate, 88-91+ pts.