so it's not all barrique

the 2016 is magnificent

velvety and opulent medium weight plus flavors are still notably youthful and muscular yet the abundant sap buffers the moderately firm tannic spine on the delicious

a huge mid-palate and a layered

This cru site is composed of sedimentary layers of sandy

Sylvain Cathiard, Vosne Romanee Orveaux Vintage:2020 so it's not all barrique(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