1995 Domaine Lecheneaut Clos de la Roche Grand Cru
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The dark-colored Clos de La Roche offers powerful blackberry and cassis fruit with clean earthy aromas. Chewy flavors of sweet and lush stones, minerals, mocha and earth are ensconced in super-ripe black cherries. This is a powerful, full-bodied, huge, yet feminine, highly structured wine with an extremely long finish. Anticipated maturity: 2003-2015. Bravo! This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. The wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Pinot Noir, a fragile varietal, reacts poorly to fining, filtration, and careless bottling techniques, I recommend caution when considering buying a red burgundy based on cask samples. I called it as I tasted it, and hope the bottled wine reflects the quality of the samples I was provided. Each of Domaine Lecheneaut's offerings is a pleasure to recommend. These wines are lush and sweet but capable of aging well, as the 1990s I have in my cellar continue to prove. Importer: Robert Kacher Selections, Washington, DC; tel. (202) 832-9083.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Pierre Rovani
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Good deep red. Superripe, multidimensional nose combines notes of kirsch, tar, beefsteak tomato, mocha and a vegetal complexity I associate with Morey-Saint-Denis. Then surprisingly high-pitched and closed on the palate; flavors are slower to emerge and build. Best today on the very long finish, which features substantial tannins and smoky oak. This is more concentrated and more seriously structured for aging than the '96, but the '96 may show better early on.