Lucien Le Moine, Vosne Romanee Petits Monts

Lucien Le Moine, Vosne Romanee Petits MontsLike the Vosne Romane Beaux Monts, this is wonderfully fresh and highly aromatic with its violet, lilac, rose petal and orange pekoe tea scents that include both red and dark currant. There is a bit more size, weight and controlled power to the slightly less mineral inflected flavors that exhibit a taut muscularity on the dusty, harmonious and strikingly persistent finale. This is terrific and very much built to age, indeed its like a smaller version

There is a similar reserve to the distinctly focused and linear flavors that enjoy a seemingly unlimited reserve of dry extract that renders the fine-grained and silky tannins almost invisible at present though I suspect that they will become much more apparent once the baby fat melts away

Somewhat unusually the mouth feel of the medium-bodied and powerful flavors is almost as sleek as those of the Combottes while delivering excellent length on the overtly stony

polished tannins and a penetrating finish

A whiff of volatile acidity does not really materially diminish the appeal of the earthy and markedly sauvage-inflected aromas of both red and dark pinot fruit that display a top note of various floral elements

this wine produces a noticeable level of sweetness on the finish

This mineral-suffused effort is very Chambolle in character and should be approachable young

The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins and a fine bead of acidity

This is more concentrated than usual and should drink well on the younger side if that’s your preference but also age well too

This is one of the top releases from Piedmont this year

The Barolos are vinified in stainless steel

this is a silky-textured

The high proportion of Merlot (65