Richebourg (0.75 L)

A highly spiced, cool and reserved nose features superb breadth with a wonderfully appealing nose of plum, violets, stone and liqueur of red berry fruit. The rich, focused and intensely mineral-inflected large-scaled flavors evidence controlled power and a sleek muscularity before terminating in an explosive and palate saturating finish of genuinely stunning length. This is a knockout and while I’m not quite sure if it can match the brilliance of the ’09 Riche, if it doesn’t it won’t be far off. A marvelous and utterly classic example.