Roche Bellene, Vosne Romanee Beaux Monts Vintage:2019 offering impressively concentrated and sharply

offering impressively concentrated and sharply delineated flavors of sappy red fruits

licorice and incense

Meaty and smoky on the nose

spicy wine without the depth of the splendid 2001

There is fine intensity to the more refined if less mineral-driven flavors that flash excellent length and even better complexity on the moderately austere finale where the wood displayed by the nose reappears

Roche Bellene, Vosne Romanee Beaux Monts Vintage:2019 offering impressively concentrated and sharplyThere is enough reduction present to push the spice and ripe dark berry fruit aromas to the background though it does not extend to the palate. The amply rich and full bodied flavors possess fine midpalate density and evident minerality on the succulent yet focused and slightly warm finale that is youthfully austere but not dry. I allowed this 24 hours of air and it remained reduced and I am always wary of wines that dont clean up with extended air.