Christian Moueix, Ulysses Size:6x750ml concentrated yet impressively refined wine

concentrated yet impressively refined wine with plenty of inner mouth perfume as well as an abundance of palate coating old vine sap that serves to cushion the still quite firm tannic spine on the strikingly persistent finish

which makes it almost shockingly easy to enjoy even now (in relative terms)

(a little known 1er that sits directly above Chambertin-Clos de Bèze made from vines planted in 1973)

but retain their vibrancy

Christian Moueix, Ulysses Size:6x750ml concentrated yet impressively refined wineOakville fruit but Napa Valley on the label. Fresh picked berries and bramble on the nose become focused and spiced on the palate. Nice herbal and earth notes with rocky minerality across the full length of the palate. The open fruit expression of the nose creates the expectation of a bigger wine to follow but it is classical with good restraint and an impressive sense of precision in the mouth. Beautifully done. (ECB)