The 2012 Pavillon Rouge is soft

Chinese five spice and potpourri plus a waft of liquid licorice

The middle weight flavors exude a really beguiling inner mouth perfume and flashing a plenitude of minerality on the focused and almost painfully intense bitter cherry pit-infused finish that leaves no doubt that this beauty is built-to-age for the long to even very long-term

For fans of Bollinger

There is a suave mouth feel to the mineral-inflected and delineated middle weight flavors that exude that lovely sense of underlying tension on the mouth coating and moderately austere finish

Joseph Drouhin, Beaune Cras other_regions The 2012 Pavillon Rouge isNA