Lucien Le Moine Clos de la Roche 2015 (750ML)

93-95 VM / 92-95 BH

(Saouma has three barrels from three sources "all over the Clos"): Healthy ruby-red. Very ripe, sexy aromas of raspberry, earth and smoke. Then quite tightly wound and powerful on the palate, showing spicy and saline elements but no easy sweetness. A classic young Clos de la Roche: dry and imploded, in a distinctly rocky style. Even more masculine in the early going than the Clos Saint-Denis and yet this wine already communicates outstanding dimension. Stephen Tanzer – Vinous Media

Tasting note: This is also quite firmly reduced. As is typically the case there is more size, weight and muscle to the broad-shouldered flavors that possess first-rate mid-palate concentration that pushes the imposingly resolute tannins to the background on the strikingly persistent finish. This is certainly a big wine and it doesn't have the refinement of the CSD but it does have more overall depth, at least today - note however that patience is absolutely necessary. Burghound