Chateau Marsannay, Ruchottes Chambertin Vintage:2015 Two bottles of the 2010

Two bottles of the 2010 Grand Puy-Lacoste were opened

As is usually this case this is a bigger and more robust Corton with its broad-shouldered flavors that possess excellent power and muscularity

this is a combination of finesse

Suave red and dark berry flavors are complicated and deepened by exotic spicecake and sweet licorice

Here too the medium weight flavors possess good richness and power along with an appealing sense of tension that suffuses the more persistent if more rustic finale

Chateau Marsannay, Ruchottes Chambertin Vintage:2015 Two bottles of the 2010(from a . 09 ha parcel). This is also quite reduced and essentially unreadable. Otherwise there is a distinctly cool and restrained character to the lively and well detailed middle weight flavors that possess a seductive texture before concluding in an intensely stony, complex and well balanced finish. This too should benefit from mid term cellaring yet unlike the Chambertin, it should be approachable young if desired. (90 93) 2024+