With fruit sourced from family-owned vineyards in Serralunga d’Alba

This bottle of 1998 Lafleur exudes such mineralité on the nose that it is rendered more distant and less appeasing to the senses than the 1999 Lafleur

It has a deep

This is an especially forward

intense and tension-filled full-bodied flavors that possess excellent power and drive on the seductively textured

Domaine Vougeraie, Vosne Romanee Aux Champs Perdrix Vintage:2019 With fruit sourced from family-owned(2015 is the first vintage for this wine). An exuberantly spicy and floralsuffused nose exhibits notes of black cherry, pomegranate, violet, sandalwood and Asian style tea. There are sleek but velvety middle weight flavors that possess both a lovely sense of vibrancy and minerality, all wrapped in a beautifully wellbalanced finish. This is excellent and quite firm yet I suspect that it will be approachable after only a few years of bottle age.