It has a deep

dense and beautifully delineated flavors possess even better depth and persistence on the more tightly wound finale

detail and minerality on to the sleek

Discreet wood spice notes and very ripe blue berry

This bottle of 1998 Lafleur exudes such mineralité on the nose that it is rendered more distant and less appeasing to the senses than the 1999 Lafleur

Domaine Vougeraie, Vosne Romanee Aux Champs Perdrix Vintage:2019 It has a deep(2015 is the first vintage for this wine). An exuberantly spicy and floralsuffused nose exhibits notes of black cherry, pomegranate, violet, sandalwood and Asian style tea. There are sleek but velvety middle weight flavors that possess both a lovely sense of vibrancy and minerality, all wrapped in a beautifully wellbalanced finish. This is excellent and quite firm yet I suspect that it will be approachable after only a few years of bottle age.