An airy and elegant nose offers up cool and smoky aromas of essence of pear and an assortment of citrus elements

red roses and lavender over a core of plum preserves

and its entry wine is every bit a prestige cuvée

—Blind 2000 Bordeaux retrospective (December 2015)

black cherry flavored finish

Anne-Francoise Gros, Vosne Romanee Clos Fontaine Vintage:2018 An airy and elegant nose(a monopole of the domaine). There is generous wood toast on the otherwise pretty, spicy and fresh nose of cool red pinot fruit aromas. The delicious and attractively textured medium bodied flavors possess fine mid palate concentration along with fine length on the mouth coating finish. This is a very nice effort in terms of its balance and density but its carrying more wood influence than I can personally warm up to as it sweetens and rounds off the