2016 Red Wine from Morey St Denis

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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: (89 - 91) The 2016 Morey-Saint-Denis Village is raised in 40% new oak and there are four barrels, so I'll let you do the math. It has a clean and focused bouquet: dark berry fruit, touches of pressed flowers emerging with...