2016 Red Wine from Morey St Denis

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: The 2016 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Cuvée Vieilles Vignes is superb, bursting from the glass with aromas of juicy cherries, peonies, blood orange, licorice, raw cocoa and espresso roast. On the palate, it's full-bodied...

Vinous, 95 points: The 2016 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru has a gorgeous bouquet with perfumed mulberry and cranberry scents laced with rose petal, the new oak beautifully integrated. The palate is full of energy, tensile from the beginning...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The 2016 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru Cuvée des Alouettes offers up lovely aromas of red plums, rose petals and candied peel that mingle with incipient savory nuances of grilled squab and forest floor. On the palate, the...

Decanter, 90 points: The Clos Sorbé is very nice this year, opening in the glass with a deep bouquet of plum, wild berries, raw cocoa and rich spice. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, rich and earthy, with good mid-palate amplitude and a...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: (89 - 91) The 2016 Morey-Saint-Denis Village felt more expressive and cohesive compared to the Chambolle-Musigny village, offering enticing blackberry and briary scents. The palate is well balanced, the 10% new oak...

Vinous, 96 points: (93-96) (three barrels from three sources): Bright ruby-red. Knockout nose combines black raspberry, brown spices, fresh blood, game and crushed-stone minerality. Similarly wild on the palate, and surprisingly expressive...

Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, 90 points: Cask sample. Mid crimson. Sweetly oaky aroma and then lovely richness of red cherry. So perfumed you could dab it on your wrist. Deep in fruit and chocolate-textured tannins. Gentle but persistent and with an excellent...

Burghound, 91 points: There is enough reduction to largely if not completely mask the underlying fruit but not the wood treatment. There is terrific punch to the beautifully delineated and muscular medium-bodied flavors that possess a polished...

Vinous, 95 points: The 2016 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru has a gorgeous bouquet with perfumed mulberry and cranberry scents laced with rose petal, the new oak beautifully integrated. The palate is full of energy, tensile from the beginning...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: (90 - 92 points) The 2016 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru Clos des Ormes has a fragrant, floral nose with blackberry, raspberry, cold wet limestone and light graphite aromas. The palate is fresh and tensile with supple tannin...

Burghound, 92 points: (90-92) A pungent nose is presently composed of strong reduction and wood toast. On the plus side there is excellent punch to the overtly muscular big-bodied flavors that possess impressive mid-palate density before...