Like the Romanée Saint-Vivant

the azure backdrop at its purest on this

as it has really come on strong with bottle age

Angelo Gaja

adding further shades of complexity

Jean Grivot, Richebourg Vintage:2002 Like the Romanée Saint-VivantA highly spiced, cool and reserved nose features superb breadth with a wonderfully appealing array of plum, violets, wet stone and liqueur of red berry fruit. The rich, focused and intensely mineral inflected large scaled flavors evidence controlled power and a sleek muscularity before terminating in an explosive and palate saturating finish of genuinely stunning length. This tightly wound effort is a middle weight in the context of the appellation