Tasting Notes
Vinous 91
Dullish medium red. Perfumed aromas of raspberry, redcurrant, smoke, leather and loam; smells deep! Then dense, solid and sweet, with very good vinosity and intensity to its soil-driven flavors of cherry, minerals and spicy underbrush. Plump but with a light touch. Finishes with a broad, fine dusting of tannins and good mineral persistence. This has turned out very well.
Burghound 90
The ample wood this displayed from barrel has now been almost completely eaten and now features ripe and mostly red pinot fruit with a trace of blue berry that continues onto the beautifully concentrated flavors that possess a sophisticated mouth feel on the supple, round and serious finish where the wood no longer resurfaces. This is delicious if not profound and should make for a lovely wine in 4 to 6 years but unlike the Bressandes, there is enough mid-palate fat that this could be approached now with pleasure though be sure to give it at least an hour’s airing as there is a touch of youthful asperity present just now.
