with additional purity and focus

This is an unusual 2011 that needs cellaring

The 2004 should drink well for at least another decade

dry-farmed vines on the Rutherford Bench remain the foundation of the wines produced here

Philippe Charlopin-Parizot, Chambertin other_regions_italy with additional purity and focusThis is aromatically reserved to the point of being all but mute and requires extensive swirling to gradually liberate the markedly spicy and layered aromas of black cherry, violet, lavender and newly turned earth. The dense and suave broad shouldered flavors possess a texture similar to that of the Clos St. Denis, all wrapped in an overtly saline inflected finale that is austere, powerful and hugely long. This is potentially terrific though again,