this wine may stain your stemware as well as your palate with its caliginous hue

tobacco and licorice

the 2009 Ermitage le Meal is as good as Hermitage gets

hints of blood orange and white pepper on the aftertaste

crushed violets

Eugenie, Clos Vougeot Vintage:2008 this wine may stain your(from a 1. 37 ha parcel of 60+ year old vines situated close to the Chteau). A brooding and very reserved but highly complex nose features notes of dried flowers, kirsch, plum and plenty of pungent earth. The highly textured, intense and concentrated big bodied flavors also exhibit the same very fine tannins as the rest of the range with a hugely long finish that is less austere than is typical. This well balanced effort should amply reward mid to