Vosne Romanée Les Beauxmonts, Domaine Leroy 1999

A highly expressive and wonderfully spicy black fruit nose that is still almost completely primary combines with lush, opulent, dense and mouth coating flavors supported by firm tannins that are completely buried beneath the impressive concentration on the hugely long finish. This is actually approachable but only because the structure is hidden and it will continue to age, and perhaps improve, for years to come. In sum, a wonderful '99 that at present has not gone dormant.