Luciano Sandrone and his daughter Barbara tell me that the 2014 harvest needs explaining

but that word did not appear in my original tasting note as they are totally buffered by the wine's extract-rich fruit

crushed chalk and then a silky citric grip

Delicate and magnificently subtle

fat and concentrated

Lucien Le Moine, Vosne Romanee Petits Monts Vintage:2017 Luciano Sandrone and his daughterLike the Vosne Romane Beaux Monts, this is wonderfully fresh and highly aromatic with its violet, lilac, rose petal and orange pekoe tea scents that include both red and dark currant. There is a bit more size, weight and controlled power to the slightly less mineral inflected flavors that exhibit a taut muscularity on the dusty, harmonious and strikingly persistent finale. This is terrific and very much built to age, indeed its like a smaller version