Explodes from the glass featuring nearly every spice imaginable on the thickly fruited nose that runs to the darker side of the fruit spectrum and the density continues onto the fresh, sweet and intense boldly structured flavors that are brooding and reserved in the mouth with simply unbelievable length. This is simply breathtakingly good and while there is so much size and weight here, the dense tannins are remarkably fine.
BH98
The 2005 Clos St.-Denis Cuvee du Centenaire – from vines planted in 1905 – is remarkable for the intensity and richness of its black fruit and exotically floral nose, its creaminess and almost Esszencia-like glycerin-richness, unctuousness, and viscosity, sumptuous flavors of black fruits, game, brown spices, blond tobacco, and preserved walnut, and a finish with prominent fruit pit bitterness but exhibiting remarkable subtlety. There is a Riesling-like intricacy of fruit-mineral interplay outlasting the sheer, stubborn clinging richness of fruit. Alas, a mere 125 cases will be bottled of this amazing wine. - WA
WA97