"The bouquet is precise and bottomless, offering up scents of black plums, black cherries, venison, espresso, woodsmoke, a very complex base of soil, mustard seed and a deft touch of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and a bit more mineral in personality out of the blocks than the regular Clos de la Roche, with a rock solid core of fruit, fine-grained tannins and stunning length and grip on the very, very promising finish. Qualitatively, there is not a whole lot of distance between these two beautiful bottles of young Clos de la Roche, but it will be interesting to follow both of them over the coming years and see how each unfolds."
JG96