There is a velvety palate impression to the muscular and impressively rich flavors that possess seemingly endless reserves of dry extract that do a fine job of buffering the exceptionally firm tannic spine on the succulent yet entirely serious finale

This beauty will need at least a few years of keeping first and should amply reward 10 to 12

There is excellent intensity and plenty of minerality to the relatively precise though caressing flavors that possess good richness and volume that continues onto the energetic

lightly spiced finish

with a plump

Benjamin Leroux, Chambertin Vintage:2019 There is a velvety palate(to be bottled only in magnum). A cooler and more restrained nose features notes of various dark berries, tea, forest floor and a very pretty array of floral elements. The sleek, markedly intense and beautifully delineated imposingly scaled flavors brim with both minerality and a refreshing salinity that builds on the overtly austere, compact and very serious finale. Once again, more depth is needed but here too better complexity will almost surely