the wine shows a distinct personality that is immediately gentle and open-knit despite its very young age

This delivers very good length though there is a touch of youthful austerity present that will require a few years of bottle age to dissipate

A gentle application of wood sets off an earthy

Despite that wide vision

which were aged exclusively in French oak because of the tiny quantities of those wines

Michel Magnien, Clos Roche other_regions_italy the wine shows a distinctThis is more complex if not quite as elegant with a densely fruited nose of red current and cherry, strong earth notes and a hint of the vegetal that slide into rich, supple and relatively round, even generous medium plus weight flavors where the supporting structural elements are quite tight but well integrated. Very good if not great. (90 92) 2016+