£24.67, Justerini & Brooks If you're looking for something classic, crowd-pleasing and versatile for Easter, this is it: a red Bordeaux (aka claret) of beautiful proportions, soft-suede tannins, ripe fresh fruit, sandalwood, tobacco, Christmas cake and mocha flavours . It's also a wine of impeccable provenance: impeccable but not revealed, at least not by Justerini & Brooks who say that, such is the sensitivity, the buyers involved in the assemblage (blending) have had to si

The text of this article originally appeared in The World of Fine Wine, issue 53 A seated tasting of nine vintages of La Conseillante from 2010 back to 1982, presented by director-winemaker Jean-Michel Laporte at Bonhams, London in March 2015, showed among other things how consistent a performer this Pomerol estate is. The impression was reinforced nine months later at a tasting of six of the same vintages, together with the 2011. The second tasting, held before and during di