Francois Lamarche, Clos Vougeot Vintage:2011 with youthfully firm tannins adding

with youthfully firm tannins adding shape and final grip

(from a huge 2

Readers will have to be patient with the 2016

The 2011 Barolo Pira Vecchie Viti is deep

Francois Lamarche, Clos Vougeot Vintage:2011 with youthfully firm tannins adding(from 3 different parcels, one at the bottom and two at the top but on opposite sides). A fresh, cool and perfumed nose of mostly red currant and cherry is liberally laced with notes of earth, underbrush and oak nuances. There is a very forward, even lush palate impression to the bigger, richer and more powerful flavors that also possess fine mid palate concentration though not necessarily better persistence. This too will need a few years of cellar