its made from a single vineyard planted in the Santa Cruz Mountains at 730m above sea level and just 15 miles from the Pacific ocean

so it's not all barrique

Angelo Gaja doesnt say too much about his wines these days

Underneath all of that plush fruit is a stony core of structure and myriad spicy complexities that should sustain it for decades to come

velvety and opulent medium weight plus flavors are still notably youthful and muscular yet the abundant sap buffers the moderately firm tannic spine on the delicious

Sylvain Cathiard, Vosne Romanee Orveaux Vintage:2020 its made from a single(from a . 30 ha parcel of 55+ year old vines). Here there is no such reductive funkiness as a cool and airy nose offers up notes of Asian style tea, spice, lavender and red and dark currant scents. There is an equally cool character to the vibrant, intense and stony medium bodied flavors that possess more volume than those of the Reignots before terminating in a wonderfully long and impeccably well balanced finale. This isnt as refined as the Reignots