2015 Lucien Le Moine Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots 1er Cru
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Dark red with ruby tones. Brooding aromas of black raspberry, licorice, dark chocolate and spicy oak are lifted by flowers and minerals. Dense, plush and deep but not at all overly sweet, with its powerful dark fruit, violet and chocolate flavors communicating full ripeness but in the process of shutting down in bottle. This very large-scaled, concentrated Suchots possesses huge material but it also benefits from the leavening influence of strong saline minerality. The broad, dusty tannins saturate the entire palate, with the wine's underlying minerality providing surprising buoyancy.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Dark red-ruby. Displays pungent high tones in a fresh porty way, offering aromas of chocolate mint and syrupy black olive tapenade (Mounir Saouma refers to this vineyard as the Côte-Rotie of Burgundy). Similarly wild and high-pitched in the mouth, offering outstanding energy and definition to its flavors of raspberry, spices, minerals and mint. Dense but light on its feet, offering incredible verve for such a ripe wine. Verging on extreme today but this liqueur-like elixir avoids coming off as thick.