A chewy concentrated version boasting flavors of sweet cherry berry and most of all mineral. Lean and taut with a long finish of sweet fruit spice and mineral. Give this some time. Best from 2014 through 2032. 50 cases imported. -BS

Having the same sources as the 2008 Maison Potel's 2007 Clos de la Roche offers a combination of smoky pungency and rhubarb-like tartness found in some other wines of this collection but rare in the vintage as a whole. Dark cherry burley tobacco resinous notes from barrel crushed stone and brown spices contribute to a complex sappily-concentrated but rather severely tannic palate impression and this leads to a forceful and persistent though slightly grainy finish. This ought to be worth following for at least a dozen years. -DS