and it needs a couple of years in bottle to digest the wood

here the nose is dominated by reductive notes

This seems almost light compared to either the Vaudésir or the Les Clos yet it is so much more refined

not wine to taste

As the description suggests the balance isn’t perfect but there is so much underlying material that my score offers the benefit of the doubt that this will better harmonize with a few years of bottle age

Simon Bize, Savigny Beaune Vergelesses Rouge Vintage:2016 and it needs a coupleThis is also quite cool and restrained with its broad based nose of plum, violets, earth, spicy and red currant aromas. There is a quite sophisticated mouth feel to the highly energetic and beautifully well detailed middle weight flavors that are less seductively textured but even finer. This impression is abetted by the very fine grain of the supporting tannins all wrapped in a long, balanced and serious finish. Lovely juice though note that like the