Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2017

Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2017An overtly floral and markedly earthy nose is quite restrained if exceptionally pretty with its cool array of red and blue pinot fruit scents laced with hints of leather and herbal tea. There is terrific vibrancy to the slightly more muscular large scaled flavors that culminate in a linear and beautifully delineated finish that really firms up as it sits on the palate. This taut, youthfully austere and very serious effort is very much built to age and

I like the focused drive of the finish

highly complex

Helena) exhibits an opaque purple color as well as a beautifully sweet nose of creme de cassis

As Kate Bush once sang: "Wow"

it comes in with 19

followed by subtle notes of vanilla and brioche

The old vines are very much in evidence as there is a true abundance of palate soaking dry extract that imparts a velvety mouth feel to the mid-palate and buffers the very firm tannins on the youthfully austere

vanilla and black truffle with a stylish ‘garrigue’ touch

well-integrated alcohol and tannin

soy and anise

integrated tannin

Still tight