Meo-Camuzet Vosne-Romanee Au Cros-Parantoux Premier Cru Cote de Nuits Burgundy France, 2019, 750

"Picked earlier than normal in 2018, but this 0.3ha parcel of 60-year-old vines is still a comparatively cool site on the slope above Vosne-Romanée. Always poured last at Méo-Camuzet, partly, one suspects, out of respect for the late Henri Jayer who used to farm the vineyard, this is one of the wines of the vintage in 2018: fine, focused, detailed, and effortlessly well balanced with understated concentration and hauntingly aromatic red fruit sweetness".

"An exuberantly spicy, slightly fresh and decidedly cooler nose combines with floral nuances, and in particular rose petal, to add both elegance and complexity to the pure dark currant and cherry scents. There is lovely energy and delineation to the caressing, sleek and precise, indeed even chiseled, medium weight flavors that possess very fine depth on the well-balanced and mineral-inflected finale where the only nit is again a hint of warmth. This is also most impressive and while it doesn't have the sheer depth of the Richebourg at present, it's possible that with extended aging it might.
Barrel Sample: 94-96"