Underneath all of that plush fruit is a stony core of structure and myriad spicy complexities that should sustain it for decades to come

the 2005 turns more delicate with time in the glass as its silkier and floral qualities become more evident

This cru site is composed of sedimentary layers of sandy

Chewy and impressively concentrated

The explosive finish goes on and on

Sylvain Cathiard, Vosne Romanee Orveaux Vintage:2020 Underneath all of that plush(from a . 30 ha parcel of 55+ year old vines). Here there is no such reductive funkiness as a cool and airy nose offers up notes of Asian style tea, spice, lavender and red and dark currant scents. There is an equally cool character to the vibrant, intense and stony medium bodied flavors that possess more volume than those of the Reignots before terminating in a wonderfully long and impeccably well balanced finale. This isnt as refined as the Reignots