as it has really come on strong with bottle age

full and sleekly muscled flavors are sappy

the azure backdrop at its purest on this

adding further shades of complexity

Here too there is a relatively supple mid-palate mouthfeel to the slightly finer broad- shouldered flavors that possess a gorgeous texture

Jean Grivot, Richebourg Vintage:2002 as it has really comeA highly spiced, cool and reserved nose features superb breadth with a wonderfully appealing array of plum, violets, wet stone and liqueur of red berry fruit. The rich, focused and intensely mineral inflected large scaled flavors evidence controlled power and a sleek muscularity before terminating in an explosive and palate saturating finish of genuinely stunning length. This tightly wound effort is a middle weight in the context of the appellation