The 2014 Château Hosanna, a blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, showcases fascinating aromas of crushed raspberries, stones, and flowers. It’s a full-bodied, dense, and concentrated wine with a structured and tight profile, featuring flavors of wet concrete and walnut skin. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and a subtle complexity of red fruit, clove, and black pepper. While the wine has elegance and freshness, it benefits from aging to soften further, with peak drinking recommended from 2024 to 2040. It is highly regarded, receiving 93-95 points across multiple reviews, including Decanter and Wine Advocate.

JamesSuckling.com | JS 95
Published: Feb 13, 2017

Fascinating aromas of crushed raspberries, stones and flowers. Full-bodied, dense and concentrated with fruit, wet concrete and walnut skin. A wine that is tight and structured. Needs time to soften. Try in 2022.

Decanter | D 94
Published: Bordeaux 2014 revisited 10 years on
Drink: 2024-2042

Coffee beans, sour cherries, some soft truffle notes emerging, floral-edged raspberries with green peppercorns too. Quite lean – this is streamlined but manages to have enough fruit and acidity and balance to be enjoyable and pushes to a medium finish. Loses a bit of energy and oomph towards the finish, but there's a feeling of graceful elegance here which I like, with the gentle charm of Pomerol noticeable. Lots of juicy acidity which gives life, and if you like delicate, finessed wines over the plush, dense ones, this is a real treat.

The Wine Advocate | RP 93
Published: Mar 31, 2017

The 2014 Hosanna followed the 2014 Latour-A-Pomerol at my tasting at J-P Moueix. To be frank, it did not quite possess the same breeding and precision as that wine, veering more towards red rather than black fruit, crushed strawberry and mulberry, tinged with clove and bay leaf. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and impressive fruit concentration. Here is the real quality: a structured and quite masculine Hosanna, albeit with genuine complexity, allspice and clove intermixed with dusky black fruit and freshly cracked black pepper. It finishes with a sense of confidence and style. Hopefully the aromatics can improve during bottle age; I strongly suspect that they will. 

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 17
Published: Apr 14, 2015
Drink: 2024-2040

Scented and alluring. Some lovely fresh Cabernet Franc aromas and a silky texture. Very winning indeed in a medium register. Lots of refreshment (only just not too much acidity). Will always be relatively light but should offer great pleasure.