2014 Domaine Meo Camuzet, Vosne-Romanee Premier Cru, Cros Parantoux

For reports and full tasting notes, go toTim Atkin MW's website.

The 2014 Vosne Romanée 1er Cru Cros Parantoux has a really quite wondrous nose that really shows its class. Beautifully defined, very pure, very intense dark berry fruit with a seam of mineralité underneath. The palate is medium-bodied with filigree tannin, a fine seam of acidity, great depth and intensity on the finish that lingers long in the mouth. This is a classy Cros Parantoux, maybe the standout from the domaine this year.

Bright ruby-red. Intense berry aromas are complicated by smoky minerality. Much more open in the early going than the Brûlées, offering a wonderfully velvety texture, but perfectly integrated acidity gives shape and verve to the intense dark fruit and spice flavors. The firm, suave tannins dust the front teeth and the very long, slowly building finish leaves the salivary glands vibrating. This vineyard was actually harvested later than the Brûlées and Richebourg and has the density to prove it.