Deep red, darker than the RSV. Less showy on the nose today, offering aromas of black raspberry, licorice, coffee and brown spices. Big, rich and highly concentrated; in a more masculine style than the Romanée-Saint-Vivant, showing a youthful medicinal cast to the sappy red cherry and menthol flavors. Seriously structured grand cru, finishing with a rather muscular tannic spine but also terrific lift and soil-driven salinity. Charles van Canneyt told me that this wine was much more open than the Romanée-Saint-Vivant a week before my visit, but then these two grand crus routinely "flip-flop" in his cellar during the months following their malos. - VM
VM96November 2014