"The 2020 Moulin-à-Vent from Xavier and Nicolas Barbet is a beautiful bottle of wine that is starting to blossom nicely on the nose, wafting from the glass in a complex and pure blend of black cherries, cassis, espresso, cigar smoke, dark soil tones, a nice touch of sweet stem tones and a topnote of currant leaf. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and complex, with lovely mid-palate depth, excellent mineral undertow and grip, fine-grained tannins and a long, beautifully balanced and very promising finish. The palate here is still in need of a couple more years of cellaring to properly soften up its backend tannins, but the wine is going to be outstanding once it is ready to drink. First rate Moulin-à-Vent."