This was the best bottle that I've encountered of Leroy's 1999 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru, unfurling in the glass with a deep and complex bouquet of dark berry fruit, cassis, smoked meats, rose petals, candied peel and sweet spices. Full-bodied, velvety and immensely concentrated, it's seamless and multidimensional, built around an elegantly muscular chassis of velvety tannin and a lively spine of acidity, concluding with a sapid and expansive finish. - WA
WA96
Rich and almost jammy, with macerated cherry and red currant notes along with spicy accents. Big and full of sweet fruit flavors, yet with plenty of structure underneath. Absolutely stunning today.
WS98