The soil here also has a high content of iron rich clay, which is one of the distinguishing features of Petrus and can come across in the wine as a slightly truffle like aroma. I had some very smart wine samples around the same time that I was drinking this, which cost 2 to 3 times the price, and the Maillet was by far my favourite. The wine though was so amazingly wonderful to drink. Each sip was generous but not the over top way that I’ve found some famous chateaux round here are trying to be, maybe based on insecurities, thinking “if I’m a 300 bottle of wine I’d better prove it”. It’s simply that this had a beautiful, luxurious feeling fruit profile, with notes of blackcurrant, plum, chocolate, truffle and tobacco. It was so, so very lovely. At 46 it is a great buy.

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Maillet Pomerol is a fairly new, hard fought venture from the Moze Berthon family, who have been making wine in Bordeaux for over 200 years. Working just 4.5ha near the St. Emilion border, their 3 parcels are predominantly made up of Merlot (95%), and the remainder Cabernet Franc. It’s been the appointment of Hubert de Bouard of Chateau Angelus as consultant, which has firmly placed this Pomerol on the map.