The 2015 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Cros Parantoux is blessed with a riveting bouquet armed with copious red and black fruit, wilted violets and rose petals. The aromatics are multi-dimensional with beguiling flair and precocity without feeling a mote overpowering. The quality of the terroir really comes through on the palate: quite dense yet very refined, almost symmetrical in terms of focus with blood orange infusing the layers of red berry fruit on the structured finish. This is a wine that delivers...and then some.

Bright medium ruby. More exotic and exuberant on the nose than the Brûlées, with scents of black raspberry and sexy sweet oak dominating in the early going. Sweeter and plusher on the palate; more pliant and showy today. At once penetrating and powerful, with bitter cherry, dark chocolate and sweet oak flavors carrying through a very strong, long finish, where surprising acidity accentuates the wine's structure. This is ultimately harder to taste today than the Brûlées but both of these wines offer near-grand cru quality.