Domaine Leroy, Richebourg Vintage:2012 menthol and exotic spices

menthol and exotic spices

The 2013 Gattinara Valferana is super-expressive today

(from parcels measuring

harvested from the 10th to the 25th of September

Domaine Leroy, Richebourg Vintage:2012 menthol and exotic spicesThis too displays an unbelievably seductive nose of vanilla, extract of pinot and spice though it cant quite match the complexity of the RSV. Sappy, mouth coating, big, robust and very powerful flavors with nary a trace of the rusticity and rough tannins that young Richebourg often displays. This seems to ooze cassis from start to finish and the persistent has to be experienced to be believed though the wine remains backward if not severe. In a word,