Wow. This is an incredibly structured Hosanna with tannin tension and density yet resilience and verve. Full and dense while being weightless and bright at the end. Thought-provoking contrasts. Old vine magic. One for the cellar. 74% merlot and 26% cabernet franc.
The 2022 Hosanna is a heady bombastic wine as if often is especially in warmer years. Black fruit bittersweet chocolate leather spice menthol and tobacco all race out of the glass. There's a good bit of tannin which makes me think patience will be critical here.
The 2022 Château Hosanna comes from iron-rich blue clay soils and is 74% Merlot and 26% Cabernet Franc that was harvest between the 5th and 19th of September. It has a perfumed lifted floral bouquet of blue fruits candied violets orange blossom and spice. This carries to a full-bodied rich concentrated firm Hosanna with plenty of ta
Offering up aromas of blackberries minty blackcurrants licorice and spices the 2022 Hosanna is full-bodied deep and concentrated with a broad velvety attack that segues into a layered fleshy mid-palate of ripe but lively fruit that's framed by polished tannins. This is always one of the more extravagant wines in the Mouiex portfolio but in 2022 its exuberance remains in check.