Deep red, a bit less saturated than the Clos Vougeot. Sappy dark fruits, flowers and spices on the nose, complemented by an exotic suggestion of white peach. Suave and supple, seemingly more open-knit and easier to taste today than the Clos Vougeot, with exotic floral lift adding to its early appeal. As sappy as this is, it's also quite sweet and pliant today. Broader than its stablemate but is it as fine?

A fleshy, forward wine, Anne Gros's 2006 Richebourg Grand Cru displays a generous bouquet of spicy plums, rich soil tones and toasty new oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied palate, underpinned by tangy acids, that starts out generous and enveloping but which turns firmer and chewier in the glass. Again, if there's a criticism, it's that after a dozen years, when a Richebourg might be expected to be hitting its stride, this 2006 is less lavish and complex than it was a handful of years ago.