Lucien Le Moine, Vosne Romanee Malconsorts other_regions_italy The 2015 Cote Rotie Chateau

The 2015 Cote Rotie Chateau d'Ampuis is remarkably dense and concentrated

The vibrant and beautifully well-detailed medium-bodied flavors possess an almost pungent minerality and culminate in a linear

grainy backbone of very ripe tannins and tons of vivacity

This is impressive and very serious but hardly perfect

Lucien Le Moine, Vosne Romanee Malconsorts other_regions_italy The 2015 Cote Rotie ChateauAn exceptionally fresh and even spicier nose combines red and black pinot fruit with really lovely floral notes that include rose, violet and lavender. The robust and overtly muscular medium weight plus flavors possess grand cru level power and impressive drive on the explosively long and stunningly complex finish. There is an abundance of dry extract that makes this seem less firmly structured than it is but make no mistake, this will need all of 15