Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche Vintage:2012 The dense and powerful broad-shouldered

The dense and powerful broad-shouldered flavors possess plenty of dry extract that largely

This is not as big and robust as the Bonnes Mares but it’s finer and has that extra dimension of depth and class that a great example of Musigny intrinsically possesses

(from an enormous 7

La Joie is another winner from Vérité

Still youthful on the nose

Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche Vintage:2012 The dense and powerful broad-shouldered(to be bottled only in magnum). A moderately toasty nose offers up aromas of cassis, plum and forest floor along with a hint of smoke. The wood treatment extends to the palate as well as on the velvety but muscular big bodied flavors that terminate in a lightly stony, austere and very serious finish where a hint of bitter pit fruit surfaces. This is on the woody side today but since it will be 20 years before this reaches its full maturity, it should