broad wine comes across as less wild than the Le Désir and La Joie bottlings

intense and driving finish

There is a suave

licorice and even a bit of chocolate and cherry that is already showing some of its charms

A discreet but beguilingly perfumed nose of liqueur of red berry fruit

Albert Bichot (Clos Frantin), Grands Echezeaux Vintage:2017 broad wine comes across as(from a . 4 ha parcel). Very pure and seductive spiced cassis and black cherry aromas dissolve into delicious, classy and focused medium full flavors that offer good richness and ample finishing punch and power. This is sleekly muscled with a structured but balanced finish that is austere but impressively persistent. A true long distance runner that will require every bit of a decade to reveal its full potential and perhaps longer. The clear class of