incense and smoky minerals pick up a spicy nuance as the wine opens up

This tightly wound and tautly muscular effort should be wonderful in due time though note well that this will require every bit of 15 years of cellar time

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intense and firm full-bodied

Like the Lavaut St

Veuve Clicquot, La Grande Dame Rose other_regions incense and smoky minerals pickThe 2008 Brut Ros La Grande Dame is also showing well, wafting from the glass with notes of red berries, warm spices, toasted brioche and citrus rind. Full bodied, fleshy and enveloping, it's a vinous, muscular wine like its white sibling, with a lively spine of acidity and delicately phenolic back end grip.