93+ The 2011 la Romanée is a bit more closed than the Caillerets out of the blocks, but it too shows outstanding potential. The fairly primary bouquet is a classic blend of apple, pear, lime zest, beautifully complex minerality, citrus blossoms and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and quite youthful in profile, with a rock solid core, excellent focus and balance and superb backend mineral drive and nervosité on the long, nascently complex and very, very classy finish. This will be a dynamite example of the vintage.

This is the first wine to display noticeable SO2 and it's enough to dominate the nose at present. There is impressive richness to the broad-shouldered yet refined and elegant medium-bodied flavors that brim with plenty of palate coating dry extract. Despite the succulence of the mid-palate there is excellent delineation on the citrus-infused, intense and moderately dry finish. Like the Caillerets this is not quite as complex as I believe that it will be with time in bottle so it would be best to allow this at least 5 years of bottle age first.