Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche other_regions Oddly velvety

Oddly velvety

tobacco and spice nose

This classy effort also needs more depth but it has everything that it needs to develop more in time

this is prettier than it is deep

Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche other_regions Oddly velvety(to be bottled only in magnum). A moderately toasty nose offers up aromas of cassis, plum and forest floor along with a hint of smoke. The wood treatment extends to the palate as well as on the velvety but muscular big bodied flavors that terminate in a lightly stony, austere and very serious finish where a hint of bitter pit fruit surfaces. This is on the woody side today but since it will be 20 years before this reaches its full maturity, it should