Very dark ruby red

backward and brooding nose reluctantly gives up hints of very earthy dark pinot fruit nuanced by a distinct animale hint that merges into broad-shouldered flavors that offer excellent volume and concentration that finishes with just a hint of dryness and plenty of minerality

11 months in French oak (35% new)

This too is absolutely going to require at least some forbearance

I made a brief but profitable visit to Bodegas Pintia with Pablo Alvarez and winemaker Xavier Ausas

Henri Boillot, Meursault Goutte d'Or other_regions_australia Very dark ruby red(from a holding of about . 17 ha where the vines run from the top to the bottom of the vineyard). This is sufficiently reduced to blur the nuances of what are clearly ripe fruit aromas. This is solidly powerful with good punch to the refined medium bodied flavors that culminate in a bone dry, lemony and youthfully austere finale. This is showing the effects of the recent bottling and I would expect it to better harmonize with a few months of aging.