Lucien Le Moine Vosne Romanee les Petits Monts 1er Cru 2015 (750ML)

93-95 VM / 92-95 BH

(aging in a single 450-liter barrel): Bright, moderately saturated ruby-red. Pungent aromas of black cherry, dark berries and stony minerality lifted by a floral topnote. Compellingly crunchy berry, cherry and saline mineral flavors display outstanding concentration and lift along with a complicating hint of earthiness. The extremely long, rising finish features noble tannins. A wine of superb sappy intensity and captivating incipient sweetness. Stephen Tanzer

Tasting note: Like the Vosne-Romanée "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 it's like a smaller version of a fine Riche. Burghound