This too is quite aromatically cool and even more elegant with its spicier array of red currant and discreet newly turned earth scents

There is a wonderful purity to the middle weight flavors that also possess admirably fine-grained tannins on the seductively textured and impressively persistent finish that really fans out as it rests on the palate

graphite and smoke is not intense but gains vigor with continued aeration

peach and a hint of pineapple

Duroche, Latricieres Chambertin Vintage:1996 This too is quite aromatically(from a . 28 ha parcel). Here the wood treatment stops just short of fighting with the otherwise very fresh, ripe and restrained aromas of primarily red and dark currant aromas that are liberally laced with sauvage, wet stone and newly turned earth scents. There is also a touch of oak on the palate where the saline and intensely mineral driven middle weight plus flavors display outstanding length and very fine depth on the well balanced finale. This