Lucien Le Moine, Vosne Romanee Malconsorts

Lucien Le Moine, Vosne Romanee MalconsortsAn exceptionally fresh and even spicier nose combines red and black pinot fruit with really lovely floral notes that include rose, violet and lavender. The robust and overtly muscular medium weight plus flavors possess grand cru level power and impressive drive on the explosively long and stunningly complex finish. There is an abundance of dry extract that makes this seem less firmly structured than it is but make no mistake, this will need all of 15

With a few minutes of air pretty aromas of complex and cool red pinot fruit

with tannins that are fully integrated but still giving form and life to the wine

fresh bread and spices

volume and sappy dry extract to the middle weight plus flavors that exude a subtle minerality on the refined and impressively long finish

(93-95)/2035+

Mollard jokingly calls her version as a “commercial” monopole)

There is lovely balance and overall

Aged for 18 months in oak (40% new)

Sweet and penetrating on the palate

There's really appetising underlying structure here

this licorice

but most of it comes off our own vineyards