The 2021 Camensac opens in the glass with notes of dark berries and cherries mingled with scents of cigar wrapper and pen ink. It is medium-bodied, with a fleshy attack that segues into a somewhat firm, angular palate that displays a touch less plenitude that I perceived from barrel.

A fine effort, the 2021 Camensac offers up aromas of cassis, plums, loamy soil and cigar wrapper, followed by a medium-bodied, velvety palate with lively acids and impressively refined tannins. Between 2007 and 2017, more than a quarter of this 90-hectare estate was replanted, replacing Merlot with Cabernet Sauvignon at 10,000 vines per hectare on the best gravel soils, and as those results start to bear fruit, Camensac's upward trajectory trumps vintage variation.