Roche Bellene, Volnay Clos Chenes

Roche Bellene, Volnay Clos ChenesRipe and again reasonably fresh aromas include those of various dark berries, warm earth and discreet floral wisps. The rich, concentrated and solidly powerful larger scaled flavors are also somewhat grippy and quite serious though in this case there is a reasonable chance this will age out successfully. With that said, this is unlikely to make for especially interesting early drinking.

the 2004 Grange is going through a cranky adolescence

Saturated crimson

Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting

There's no 2012 or 2013 of this

This is a big wine in the context of what is typical for BBM

This is very firmly constituted and a wine that should really not be touched for at least a decade

totally beguiling personality

fleshy and precise

featuring a zesty underpinning of spice

Les Argillières and Les Fremières)

A completely backward but superbly complex nose displays layered aromas that run to game and underbrush as well as ripe red and dark berry fruit trimmed in a bit of wood toast that give way to rich

It just exudes complexity