Marchand & Tawse / Pascal Marchand Bonnes Mares

A very dense, compact ("reduced") wine. Broodingly dark in the glass; nose of dark fruit (black cherry?), wood and muted spice. It was initially open but has now after three hours closed down, becoming solid and actually rather formidable; the taste is going through the same transformation. Texture and weight have now completely taken over from flavour (bye-bye black cherries, or whatever you were), and the colour is virtually black. A truly unusual, transmorphic wine (and as I go back …

Musique & Vin Wine Tasting (Château du Clos de Vougeot) : Tasting, brief note. Slightly reduced. Also mostly red with lots of power, tannins and concentration. Even putting reduction aside, I clearly preferred the CSD. 91-92 point potential.