Joseph Drouhin, Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Vintage:2020 dark pinot fruit and plenty

dark pinot fruit and plenty of earth character

A touch of unabsorbed SO2 doesn’t seriously detract from the pretty

It will be seven or eight years until it truly starts to blossom

The palate is much better and more expressive with tangy marmalade and quince notes

orange pith and a hint of praline

Joseph Drouhin, Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Vintage:2020 dark pinot fruit and plenty(from Les Malconsorts, Chaumes and Petits Monts). A ripe if highly restrained mix of red and blue fruit is liberally sprinkled with spice and floral notes. There is good volume and solid mid palate density to the seductively delicious big bodied flavors that are shaped by a phenolically mature tannic spine, all wrapped in a mildly rustic but highly persistent mineral inflected finish. Note well that this muscular and robust effort is definitely going