2016 Vosne Romanee Les Suchots
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The 2016 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Suchots is one of the highlights of the range this year, offering up a complex bouquet of rose petal, Asian spices, wild berries and sapid bass notes of grilled game bird and smoke. On the palate, it's full-bodied, ample and layered, with satiny structuring tannins, an intensely concentrated core of fruit and a long, resonant finish. This is a powerful, complete and tight-knit Suchots that will really reward bottle age.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Neal Martin
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The 2016 Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots 1er Cru has an intriguing, almost peaty-like bouquet with the 100% stem addition perhaps not quite as subsumed as the Les Chaumes. The palate is well balanced with a slither of marmalade on the entry. Vibrant and fresh with edgy and chalky tannin that dovetail into a brine-tinged finish. Very fine, although I might just have a preference for the Les Chaumes.
100% whole bunch. Dark garnet. Very sumptuous indeed on the nose. Very rich and zesty. Really confident and brambly. You could almost enjoy this already! Very juicy. And with real pace. Incredibly long and fresh. (JR)
(the yield here was just 15 hectoliters per hectare; vinified entirely with whole clusters): Deep medium red. Sexy, rather wild aromas of raspberry and strawberry complicated and enlivened by pepper, spices, herbs and minerals. A sappy, soil-driven vin de terroir , at once glyceral and light on its feet, with its tangy red berry flavors lifted by salty minerality and a light peppery quality. Really lovely use of stems here! The tannins lightly dust the palate and spread out horizontally on the slowly building finish. Very promising.