Sylvain Cathiard, Vosne Romanee Suchots

Sylvain Cathiard, Vosne Romanee Suchots(25 year old vines). Wonderfully spicy nose cut with traces of earth and new oak and flavors that display more size, weight, power and structure if not quite the same level of finesse. This offers good power for the vintage and will benefit from 5 to 7 years of cellar time.

supported by firm

I also tasted Conterno’s first wines from his newly-acquired vineyard in Cerretta

crushed flowers and deeply spiced notes are woven into an intricate fabric of indescribable class

Much fresher and lighter than most

An expressive and agreeably fresh nose combines notes of red cherry

This is another memorable Solaia with no signs of fading

spicy and long on the finish

Egon Mullers 2011 collection tasted last September at the Scharzhof in his absence represents an intensively selective harvest that extended from mid-October into November and resulted in one of the numerically smallest number of individual bottlings in the history of this venerable estate smaller even than the number from 20100

Convincing rather than just dry

it goes straight to your brain and it stays there

This is clearly built for extended aging and I would recommend not touching a bottle for at least a decade

but it is unrealistic to place too high an expectation on a wine that was frankly made with pretty rustic means