Lucien Le Moine Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Les Chaumes 2020

Lucien Le Moine Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Les Chaumes 2020

and wonderfully ripe tannin in the intense finish that must last for 40+ seconds

As Kate Bush once sang: "Wow"

concentrated and generously proportioned medium-bodied flavors that are blessed with plenty of dry extract that simultaneously coats the palate and buffers the moderately firm tannic spine

all wrapped in a wonderfully long

) It is very fresh

The textured and velvety broad-shouldered flavors also enjoy stunningly good concentration and power while displaying an almost pungent minerality on the powerful and borderline painfully intense finish that just goes on and on

A Napa Valley classic

The 57-acre estate vineyard includes the Helms Vineyard in Rutherford

and extraordinarily fragrant

weight and mid-palate concentration that coats the palate with dry extract and enrobes the firm tannic spine to the point where it is more of a background element than usual

There is a velvety and highly seductive character to the wonderfully rich and generous middle weight flavors that also brim with palate coating dry extract before culminating in a seriously long anise-infused finish

spice and a whiff of lavender