The 2009 Beaumonts is also very ripe and red fruity, as it offers up scents of raspberries, a touch of fruitcake, spicy overtones, woodsmoke, minerals and a touch of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied...
The 2009 Beaumonts is also very ripe and red fruity, as it offers up scents of raspberries, a touch of fruitcake, spicy overtones, woodsmoke, minerals and a touch of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and complex, with layers of ripe fruit on the attack, good mid-palate depth, suave tannins and very good length and grip on the fruit-driven finish. I have a slight preference for the Suchots over the Beaumonts this year, as it is a tad more reigned-in stylistically, but the Beaumonts is the deeper and slightly longer wine, and for fans of the more fruit-driven style of Vosne, the Beaumonts will clearly be the preferable wine between these two.