Richebourg, Domaine Anne-Francoise Gros 2001

Good full red. Precise aromas of cassis, violet, blood orange and sweet oak. Rich, sweet and oaky but also sharply delineated and pristine, with vivid flavors of raspberry, minerals and blood orange. Less sexy and spicy in the middle today than the Clos Vougeot, and a bit more obviously tannic on the back end, but this finishes sweet and very long. The wine's firm spine calls for six or seven years of cellaring.