which hangs on with noteworthy tenacity and building sweetness

with a perfumed

The flavors are precise and concentrated with enough silky tannin to suggest that another 2-3 years of bottle age would allow further evolution

This wine should continue to offer gorgeous and good-value drinking for another decade

This is even bigger and more powerful with its mouth coating broad-shouldered flavors that possess plenty of muscle before culminating in an explosive but tightly wound finish that just goes on and on

Rollin Pere et Fils, Pernand Ile Vergelesses Rouge Brut Zero which hangs on with noteworthy(two thirds of this is from 65 year old vines and the other third is from 10+ year old vines, aged in 25% new oak). As is usually the case, this is the most elegant red in the Rollin range with a refined nose of various red berries, in particular currant, along with pungent stone notes though interestingly in 2010 there is a hint of the sauvage that is not usually present. The cool and ultra pure middle weight flavors benefit from wonderfully fine