Bruno Clair, Savigny Beaune Dominode

Bruno Clair, Savigny Beaune Dominode(from vines planted in 1902). A wonderfully complex earthy and spicy dark berry fruit nose leads to delicious, generous and fleshy middle weight flavors that are sweet, intense and quite finely structured, all wrapped in a finish of impressive length. This is quite firmly if deceptively structured as the tannic spine is completely buffered by the abundant sap. In a word, terrific. 91 2013+

notably dry and driving finish

I find the 2015 PS to be a little marked by the élevage from a dry and warm year that resulted in a concentrated wine

More substantial than the 1996 Forts

but over the last few years

Prost jokingly refers to this parcel as “Montrachet du haute pente”

Who says there is no such thing as terroir

this wine is now a candidate for drying out given its hollow middle and hard

This cru site is composed of sedimentary layers of sandy

volume and complexity

with youthfully firm tannins adding shape and final grip

grapefruit

grainy texture and very long