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"Very youthful and bright, with blue and purple fruit, violets, graphite and cassis. It’s firm, crunchy and tense on the palate, with lots of juicy blue fruit and a structured, al dente finish. You can taste the grape juiciness and crunch on the palate. 50% cabernet sauvignon, 31% marselan and 19% cabernet franc. Long. Drink or hold."
"Very youthful and bright, with blue and purple fruit, violets, graphite and cassis. It’s firm, crunchy and tense on the palate, with lots of juicy blue fruit and a structured, al dente finish. You can taste the grape juiciness and crunch on the palate. 50% cabernet sauvignon, 31% marselan and 19% cabernet franc. Long. Drink or hold."
95 points. - James Suckling
"Domaine de Long Dai’s flagship wine in the 2021 vintage is a blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Marselan and 19% Cabernet Franc. As noted in my review of Long Dai’s 2021 second wine, Hu Yue, this kind of blend, to some extent, reflects the overall cooler vintage conditions (similar to 2020) that Long Dai experienced in the Qiu Shan Valley. Fortunately, June and July saw reasonably warm, dry and even temperatures to bolster flowering and early grape development. But with a number of rainy spells in September and October, the Long Dai team commenced harvest relatively early, applying rigorous selection across its 547 terraces covering some 38 hectares. That degree of selection has paid off. 2021 Long Dai has a deep purple appearance and sports an immediately appealing and approachable nose of vibrant, perfumed, black cherry, bramble, cassis, mulberry, blueberry and damson (this assemblage of fruit notes is derived from the combinations of Cabernets and Marselan) with some leafy herbaceousness and complemented by oak-influenced vanilla, clove, toast and smoke (the 2021 vintage saw around 18 months maturation in French barriques, percentage of new undisclosed, all issuing from DBR Lafite’s coopers). On the palate, it is full-bodied with impressively ripe and polished, fine-grained tannins; there’s been a real effort here, as in the 2020 vintage, to shape Marselan’s sometimes austere tannin profile with vibrant acidity and very well-integrated 13.5% alcohol. There’s an impressive core of ripe, vinous and vivacious dark fruit with integrated oak and well-managed pyrazine. With its long length and layered finish, this strikes me as on par with the 2020. That said, I would need to taste both Hu Yue and Long Dai vertically to reappraise the wines. Already approachable, 2021 Long Dai has a significant life ahead of it and will develop well in bottle over, at least, the next 8-10 years."
94 points. - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate