Lucien Le Moine, Gevrey Chambertin Estournelles St Jacques Vintage:2016 This is the first wine

This is the first wine to display any appreciable amount of wood and even here it’s quite subtle as it easily allows the notably exotic aromas of dried yellow fruit

La Joie is another winner from Vérité

675 cases imported

with suave vanilla

powerful and intensely stony flavors that culminate in an explosive finish with the same vaguely saline quality as the Bienvenues

Lucien Le Moine, Gevrey Chambertin Estournelles St Jacques Vintage:2016 This is the first wineAn elegant, pure and airy nose blends notes of both red and dark berries with good spice and a vaguely earth wisp that is trimmed in a touch of wood. The rich, generous and surprisingly full bodied flavors manage to retain a good sense of refinement on the sappy, moderately austere and much less compact finale.