intense and mineral-driven medium weight flavors that display excellent length on the youthfully austere finale

more energy and generosity coming through

and that's what ultimately gives this wine its freshness and brightness

earthy and mildly sauvage-tinged nose offers up notes of both red and dark cherry with an interesting smoky hint

He has close relationships with his growers and calls the shots when it comes to vineyard management

Philippe Charlopin-Parizot, Clos Vougeot Size:6x750ml intense and mineral-driven medium weightAll that can be discerned on what seems to be a very ripe nose are notes of reduction and wood. There is excellent volume to the very rich larger scaled flavors that brim with dry extract that imparts a suave texture as well as buffers the powerful, complex and impressively long finish where notes of rusticity and austerity slowly emerge. This too is very promising.