The last wine of the night and, fittingly, by some distance the biggest and most powerful. This was impressive, if still a long distance and many years away from being anywhere near what its peak. The nose was very “Vosne”, with deep draws of dark berries and earth and fragrant spice - quite attractive, in quietly masculine way. The palate echoed that. It was powerful and muscular, with deep, dark flavours of blackberries and dark cherries wound up together with meatier, earthier notes stretching into a long finish replete with more of that fragrant Vosne spice picked up on the nose and just a little lift of orange peel right at the edges of the backpalate. This was a very complete wine. It was nicely balanced and very well integrated, with a nice fullness and intensity and lots of energy still tightly wound up away in the core of the wine. Still very monolithic though, almost a bit one-noted at times. Certainly backward for a 1993. I would give this lots of time yet – 6, 8, 10, 12 years in the bottle perhaps. It certainly has the substance and structure to go the distance.

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A rather funky, not entirely clean nose that somewhat resembles brett but isn't leads to otherwise dense, sappy and complex flavors and solid length but the nose is unpleasant. I have had better bottles than this one but more than a few examples have had this moderately unclean nose.

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