Tasting note: Spice, pepper and exuberant black fruit and floral aromas lead to pure, delicious, round and very intense middle weight flavors that offer really lovely finishing detail and fine persistence. This is a very pretty wine and every bit the equal of the excellent 1999.

Spice, pepper and exuberant black fruit and floral aromas lead to pure, delicious, round and very intense middle weight flavors that offer really lovely finishing detail and fine persistence. This is a very pretty wine and every bit the equal of the excellent 1999. Drink: 2012+
-Burghound.com, Issue 17. Tasted: Jan 01, 2005

(a blend from the second harvest of the estate's various vineyards; Villaine noted that the '99 version of this wine did not include the second harvest from Romanee-Conti) Good full red. Fruit-driven aromas of plum and spice. Perfumed and sweet in the mouth, with an enticing spiciness but without quite the fine grain and density of texture of the estate's other wines. With a bit less volume, this conveys an impression of stronger acidity, even if the numbers don't show it.

Notes of pepper and spices are found in the nose of the 2002 Vosne-Romanee 1er Cru Cuvee Duvault-Blochet, a wine produced from some of the younger grand cru vines. Its lovely, satin-textured personality is harmonious and medium-bodied. Freshly cracked pepper marks this black cherry-dominated effort’s flavor profile. It should be consumed between 2006 and 2011. Importer: Wilson Daniels, St. Helena, CA; tel. (707) 963-9661

Pale ruby with very pale rim. Low key nose that mildly suggests truffles and has quite a firm backbone too. Tannins quite obvious at this stage and no shortage of acidity. Feels as though it could open out quite gorgeously eventually. (JR)