Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2014

Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2014This is also moderately reduced and impossible to properly assess. Otherwise there is excellent volume to the equally muscular big bodied flavors that are richer but don't quite have the same sense of underlying tension before terminating in a palate coating and quite firmly structured finish that delivers terrific length.

Elegant and attractively perfumed aromas speak of red cherry

It was the extraordinary 1950 Petrus

spice and gentle earth scents

espresso and grilled herbs flesh out on the huge finish

There is again excellent volume to the sleek but powerful and concentrated middle weight plus flavors that exude a fine bead of minerality on the moderately austere finish that delivers flat out superb persistence

The Climens 2001 has always possessed a deliriously complex and intense bouquet that is beautifully defined: dried quince and marmalade

blueberry and licorice

but the last two times I have had it

serious and overtly powerful big-bodied and imposingly scaled flavors that also possess seemingly unlimited reserves of palate coating dry extract that impart a velvety texture but also buffer the very firm tannins on the massively persistent finish

intellectual bouquet with scents of dried honey

with ripe honey

brawny wine revealing the tell-tale peppery