This red offers ample ripe cherry, strawberry and currant aromas and flavors, well-meshed with a solid backbone and energy. Elegance is the theme, presenting a lingering finish that replays the fruit notes and adds a chalky, mineral element. Best from 2023 through 2045. From France. — B.S.

Tasted blind, the 2015 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Beaux Monts showed beautifully, offering up a lovely bouquet of dark, plummy fruit complemented by nuances of incense, Asian spices and smoked duck. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, supple and lavish, with a rich but compellingly sapid core of fruit, juicy acids and largely concealed satiny structuring tannins. - William Kelley

(BH91-93 points) A discreet application of wood frames the exuberantly spicy and notably ripe aromas of dark currant, violet and Asian-style tea. The rich, sleek and mineral-driven flavors display focused power on the saline, punchy and strikingly long finale. This beauty is more firmly structured and will need a few years first.