Bourgogne Pinot Noir

Super floral nose with deep black cherry, some clear wet earth and spice. Seems like it’s holding back. Lovely meatiness with air. Blackberry and black currant now. Really pretty and focused. Palate is elegant and fresh with terrific black and red cherry fruit and so much fruit and material on the midpalate. Needs air to come together but it’s all there.

Maybe this bottle is off, but no delineation. Flabby and hot with nice dark red fruit and some acidity but lacking tannins and, well, character. 2020

As usual this is a preposterous wine and a preposterous value and the best of its kind. The fruit has a lipstick like intensity that boggles the mind. Black cherry, dark red cherries, dusty earth, pulverized rocks and so much more. There is a tiny berry fruit intensity that is a trademark of this wine. Smells like elite village burg. Palate is Uber concentrated with dazzling purity and freshness for days. Black cherry, dark red cherries and so much sapidity. Elegant, complex and so deep. Amazing black raspberry as well. This just keeps pushing on the finish. As this airs the limestone intensity just keeps getting more and more defined on the nose. Superb cut and delineation, with such unreal concentration. Never heavy always elegant and a finish you will not believe for this level. It’s superb in its compactness. Some wood shavings character now on the nose after air. From high school woodshop. Gorgeous fruit. This is just dazzling. A skoche behind the 19 but still the best of its class. Let’s see what air does.

Aravind had this 7 months ago