![Vosne Romanée, Aux Malconsorts, 1er Cru [SHC]](https://horizonlives3.diageohorizon.com/PR1600/media/images/bottles/family-bottle-0.jpg?fm=avif&q=30 "Vosne Romanée, Aux Malconsorts, 1er Cru [SHC]")
Vosne Romanée, Aux Malconsorts, 1er Cru [SHC], 2012
Powerful but not too heavy by any means; gripping incredibly long flavours of minerals, asian spice, bright red cherry and cherry stone mixed with bramble. Perfectly weighted, this boasts incredible force yet is disinguished and refined at the same time. An absolute stunner. From rocky clay sand-based soils, less compact and less clay-based than Suchots, so not as round but more structure and minerals. One of the top Vosne Premier Cru vineyards situated next door to the Boudots of Nuits-St.-Georges, making wines that show a similar power but with a silky Vosne texture.
critic reviews
Bright, dark red. Reduced, very smoky aromas of dark cherry, raspberry and minerals. Tactile, concentrated and classically dry, conveying a strong, chewy impression of dry extract. Not yet as fat or complex as the last three samples but this is quite backward today. Finishes with building tannins and resounding oaky length, with a late hint of orange zest providing lift. Very hard to judge in its present form, but Sebastian Cathiard notes that this wine will not be bottled before April. My projected range may turn out to be overly conservative.