the 2008 will really start to blossom with five or six years of bottle age

As with most of the single-vineyard wines from the vintage

leather and tobacco add shades of nuance throughout

Mild reduction knocks down the nose but it seems reasonably clear that the underlying fruit is ripe

the 2005 is constantly changing in the glass

Lucien Le Moine, Chambolle Musigny Amoureuses other_regions_italy the 2008 will really startReduction masks the underlying fruit though there is a really lovely inner mouth perfume to the punchy and gorgeously textured middle weight flavors that brim with minerality on the sappy and wonderfully complex finale that flashes first rate length. This firm effort is presently quite compact and a wine that is going to need at least some bottle aging to further flesh out, though it is already very classy.