Bond The Matriarch - 2006 (750ml) Size:750ml this was the first vintage Friulano and aromatic Size:375 ml 182571

this was the first vintage where I began to notice on some bottles the wet cement/damp cardboard aromas that were far more increasingly evident in the subsequent vintages

I have actually picked it as a right bank Pomerol because of the lushness and succulence of the cedary

"From a tiny

caramel and dried apricot

My original ratings appear to have been dead on the money for both of these efforts from Chateau Latour

Bond The Matriarch 2006 (750ml) Size:750ml this was the first vintage Friulano and aromatic Size:375 ml 182571 this was the first vintage where I began to notice on some bottles the wet cement damp cardboard aromas that were far more increasingly evident in the subsequent vintages I have actually picked it as a right bank Pomerol because of the lushness and succulence of the cedary