Older Merlot vines were replanted three years ago

Bright ruby-red

11% cabernet franc and 7% petit verdot)

Given how precocious it seems just nowit certainly won't make your mouth turn immediately to cotton and your tongue seize upthe fruit is so good that some will dare to drink it now

This is quite an elegant wine with lovely harmony and strikingly good balance

Armand Rousseau, Gevrey Chambertin Size:6x750ml Older Merlot vines were replanted(from Les Crais, Creux Brouillard, En Champs, Les Cercueils, Clos Prieur Haut and Bas, La Marie and Estournelles St. Jacques). This is much more deeply pitched and pungently earth with its array of very fresh red and dark berries that carry whiffs of earth and the sauvage. The rich, round and attractively textured medium bodied flavors possess better depth and persistence as well as notably better underlying material. Note that this well made effort