Michel Lafarge, Beaune Greves Rouge

Michel Lafarge, Beaune Greves RougeAs is typically the case this is slightly riper and more deeply pitched with its more complex collection of dark berries, game, warm earth and lilac nuances. The sleek, intense and tautly muscular medium weight flavors that possess excellent mid palate density thanks to the copious amounts of dry extract, all wrapped in a vibrant mineral driven and powerful finish. This impressive effort is clearly built to age and is going to need it. In a word,

grass and white flowers

it's an intense

(87-89)/2019+

24 ha parcel of 11 year old young vines planted in a mix of rock and sand)

This too may lengthen out but today it seems a bit clipped and compact

(the proportions have changed again and in 2018 are in a 35/65% proportion from Les Languettes in Aloxe and En Charlemagne in Pernand)

peat moss and blood orange

The vineyard is in Torroja where the soils are slate and for Dominik slate works better with Cariñena

supple and beautifully detailed flavors that while complex and linear

It’s always based on 50+-year-old Grenache vines (95% or higher) and is aged all in older foudre

this full bodied

Snap this one up and grow old gracefully with it