Ripe and fresh, with a touch of tropical fruit, graphite minerality, and well-integrated, moderate oak influence. Balanced acidity and medium body, long finish.
Aged for 4 years in barrel without being topped up before bottling. This is a “baby Vin Jaune” according to Jean Francois. Powerful aromatics and richness. Nutty, appley, spiced.
The bouquet still shows plenty of lovely fruit, albeit, beginning its retreat, but still offering up scents of apple, quince, fresh lime, a fine base of soil tones, citrus peel, dried flowers and incipient notes of beeswax. On... Read More
