Bright medium red. Knockout nose offers plum, raspberry, Oriental spices, blood orange, minerals and underbrush; a real essence of Vosne-Romanee. Then dense and sappy in the mouth, with wonderful pinot tang to the dark raspberry and crushed stone flavors. Offers a compelling combination of chewy texture, electric energy and intriguing soil tones. Finishes with superb palate-dusting persistence. This is almost grand cru-like in its power.

The 2008 Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts 1er Cru, en magnum, has more cohesion and precision than the Les Beaumonts. The nose offers dark berry fruit, black tea and light touches of iodine. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, much fleshier than the Les Beaumonts. It is smooth in texture, with dark cherries and plummy notes mixed with allspice towards the finish. Lovely. Tasted at Stannery Wines' producer tasting in London.

Sweet spot outstanding. A shy and reserved red pinot fruit nose is cut with light spice, warm earth and floral notes that give way to rich, succulent and seductively textured big-bodied flavors that possess a sleek muscularity and excellent volume on the powerful, dusty and borderline chewy finish but with none of the rusticity that Malconsorts sometimes exhibits. This is terrific and highly complex already. Patience required though. Drink 2018+.
– Burghound.com, Issue 37. Tasted: Jan 2010