The 2013 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru les Beaux-Monts already has an engaging floral bouquet that is expressive and beautifully delineated. The palate is showing just a touch of reduction but it is well balanced with ripe, tensile tannins with plenty of red fruit on the finish. This should have real joie de vivre once in bottle, but you cannot ignore the fine structure underneath.

The 2013 Vosne-Romanée Les Beaux Monts is a powerful, deep wine endowed with superb textural richness. Dark red cherry, plum, spice, licorice and new leather all find support in beams of underlying minerality that give the wine its energy and pulsating salinity. The Beaux Monts is shaping up to be a jewel.

(vinified with 82% whole clusters): Healthy bright red. Highly nuanced aromas of raspberry, flowers, minerals and leather. Rich, sappy and fine-grained, showing excellent cut and lift to its raspberry and spice flavors. Finishes lively and salty, with suave tannins and excellent length. This fruit was picked with 12.1% potential alcohol and will be bottled at about 12.8%. A beauty in the making.

Denser crimson than most. Real substance and density. Sweet and perfumed and lots of fun. Very clean fresh finish. (JR)