Chateau de la Tour, Clos Vougeot Vv other_regions I suspect one will emerge

I suspect one will emerge from the different lots of Les Bessards that I tasted as 2009 is certainly a year where enough wine can be culled out for the Cathelin without sacrificing the monumental quality of the regular Hermitage

There is better delineation and energy to the more obviously mineral-driven flavors that deliver fine punch on the balanced and youthfully austere finale

Ravera and Le Coste vineyards

though it maintains fine delineation and offers great length

with a very deep ruby color

Chateau de la Tour, Clos Vougeot Vv other_regions I suspect one will emergeA wonderfully expressive and broad ranging nose offers up notes of plums, black cherries, floral hints that combine with moderate wood influence. This is a powerful, dense, concentrated yet impressively refined wine with plenty of inner mouth perfume as well as an abundance of palate coating old vine sap that serves to cushion the still quite firm tannic spine on the strikingly persistent finish. This is evolving glacially and certainly much slower