velvety and opulent medium weight plus flavors are still notably youthful and muscular yet the abundant sap buffers the moderately firm tannic spine on the delicious

The explosive finish goes on and on

the 2005 turns more delicate with time in the glass as its silkier and floral qualities become more evident

so it's not all barrique

Sylvain Cathiard, Vosne Romanee Orveaux Vintage:2020 velvety and opulent medium weight(from a . 30 ha parcel of 55+ year old vines). Here there is no such reductive funkiness as a cool and airy nose offers up notes of Asian style tea, spice, lavender and red and dark currant scents. There is an equally cool character to the vibrant, intense and stony medium bodied flavors that possess more volume than those of the Reignots before terminating in a wonderfully long and impeccably well balanced finale. This isnt as refined as the Reignots