The taste is full-bodied and focused with silky tannins

and persistent

The 2018 vintage is particularly convincing with a beautiful combination of concentration

As I've written before

blackberries

Château Valandraud, Saint-Emilion, 2021, 75cl MASTER_2233 The taste is full-bodied andThe 2021 Valandraud offers up aromas of minty berries framed by a generous application of creamy new oak. Medium to full bodied, with a creamy attack that segues into a mid palate built around chalky barrel tannins, it concludes with a vanillin inflected and discreetly herbal finish. This showed more harmoniously en primeur than in bottle. William Kelley, Wine Advocate