Sylvain Cathiard, Vosne Romanee Orveaux Vintage:2002 toasted spice

toasted spice

pear and acacia blossom

This magnificent Chevalier should be a genuine stunner in 12 to 15 years

an unctuous texture

perfumed red berry notes to this medium-bodied vintage of Colombier's Hermitage

Sylvain Cathiard, Vosne Romanee Orveaux Vintage:2002 toasted spice(from a . 30 ha parcel of 55+ year old vines). Here there is no such reductive funkiness as a cool and airy nose offers up notes of Asian style tea, spice, lavender and red and dark currant scents. There is an equally cool character to the vibrant, intense and stony medium bodied flavors that possess more volume than those of the Reignots before terminating in a wonderfully long and impeccably well balanced finale. This isnt as refined as the Reignots