...boasts a huge nose of blueberries, blackberries, minerals, and vanillin. It is a wine of great purity, intensity, and mass, with extraordinary richness, a blockbuster mid-palate, and a whoppingly long finish...
Rich, deep, and supple as velvet, this inky red is concentrated yet plush, with thick yet graceful flavors of plums, coffee and toast. Accessible now, but it has the muscle to last.
Much more obviously ripe than the 1995 and sweeter... Tannins very well covered.
625 cases produced; René Barbier