Jean Fournier, Marsannay Trois Terres Vv

Jean Fournier, Marsannay Trois Terres Vv(from a blend of Clos du Roy, Longeroies and Es Chezots). This is also firmly reduced and aromatically unreadable today. There is more volume to the rich, concentrated and caressing yet powerful middleweight plus flavors that conclude in a compact, serious and long if somewhat grippy finale that makes clear that extended cellaring will be necessary.

Light gold color

with more Barolo tannins than Burgundy

A broadly floral-inflected nose combines notes of lavender

Fairly strong reduction blocks the nose though glimpses of ripe black fruit and the natural spice of a classic RSV peek through and continue onto the rich

but neither weighty nor over the top as might be expected for a wine of such extreme richness

stone and extract of red pinot fruit

while licorice snap

bacon fat and smoky

rich and velvety

and I coaxed two bottles of Colore over two days before writing this note

This is a conservative Brane-Cantenac that refuses to go the extra inch

5 ha is planted to chardonnay