The 2015 Richebourg Grand Cru has a glorious, seductive, multifaceted bouquet that offers a heady mélange of red and black fruit, hints of flint and graphite and seamlessly integrated oak. The palate is fresh and vibrant right from the start, featuring filigreed tannin, perfect acidity, beguiling harmony and a spellbinding peacock’s tail of a finish. This is close to the pinnacle of the 2015 Burgundy vintage. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.

Dark, bright medium red. Knockout nose combines aromas of black cherry, black raspberry, dark chocolate, coffee, mocha and smoky silex . Powerful on entry, then incredibly silky and seamless but vibrant too, with thick flavors of black raspberry and dark chocolate lifted by a piquant citrus quality. Voluminous and sweet but tightly wound, this utterly compelling wine finishes with great energy and length and a refreshing note of bitter orange that stimulates the salivary glands. And yet I sense that I'm only seeing the tip of the iceberg today. These Grivot grand crus are showing spectacularly now. If they don't shut down in bottle, that will be because they have perfect balance.

Tasted blind, Grivot's 2015 Richebourg Grand Cru showed brilliantly, soaring from the glass with a fragrant bouquet of peonies, rose petals, black raspberries, candied peel, exotic Asian spices and blood orange. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and elegant, with satiny tannins, succulent acids and a long, perfumed and beautifully delineated finish. This is a stunning Richebourg that exemplifies the new stylistic paradigm chez Grivot, where the wines seem to gain in finesse with every passing vintage.