Rich and textural, this gloriously mixes raspberries, cherries, baking spices, cola, cocoa and coconut components, all woven together seamlessly. It's forward and juicy, yet built for medium-term aging. Drink now through 2026.

91+ The 2014 Domaine Drouhin regular bottling of pinot noir is a lovely bottle, offering up a ripe and complex nose of strawberries, cherries, a touch of beetroot, lovely spice tones, a fine base of soil, fresh thyme and cedary wood. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and still fairly youthful, with a nicely sappy core of fruit, fine-grained tannins, good acids and fine length and grip on the primary finish. This wine is 14.1 percent octane and could use a year or two in bottle to absorb its new wood, as the tannins are not yet completely integrated, but the wine is well-balanced and will be superb once it has had a chance to blossom with cellaring.

There’s a wonderful purity of flavor in this vintage of Domaine Drouhin’s flagship wine, with beguiling scents of earth and juicy plum. With air the wine becomes darker, more weighty and complex, with demonstrative tannins that need food, like a bavette steak.

Lithe, focused and expressive under a blanket of fine tannins, offering raspberry, cherry and blueberry notes that persist into an elegant, savory finish, this has presence and length. Better than previously reviewed. Best after 2018. 15,682 cases made. –HS