Verkostungsnotizen
Vinous 94
Saturated deep ruby; one of the darkest ’96s I saw in November. Multifaceted nose combines black fruits, violet, licorice, espresso, smoke, gibier and sweet butter. The class of the cellar in terms of concentration, sweetness, finesse and length; in fact, today this wine makes Geantet’s ’95 seem almost heavy in comparison. Lovely roundness and clarity of flavor. Really explodes on the palate-staining finish.
Robert Parker 93
This dark ruby-colored wine has a delightful nose of both sugar-coated blueberries and blackberries that gives way to a huge burst of candied red, purple, and black fruits. This harmonious and refined, yet concentrated and full-bodied wine is plump, velvety-textured, and complex. Flavors of soft milk chocolate and cassis liqueur are found in its seductive, succulent, and silky-smooth finish. Drink this gem between 2002 and 2009.Bravo! Vincent Geantet, a young man who appears to be in his mid-thirties, produces seductive, supple, flavorful, and immensely pleasurable wines. His wines (out of bottle) are filled with exuberant and lush fruit and are seemingly ready to drink. They are aged in one-third new oak (from a multitude of sources) with a heavy reliance on first year barrels, and are neither fined nor filtered. Geantet informed me that all had been bottled on January 7 by an itinerant bottling truck. Importer: A Daniel Johnnes Selection, Jeroboam Imports, New York, NY; tel (212) 374-9415 and Kysela Pere et Fils, Fran Kysela, Winchester, VA; tel (540) 722-9228.
Anticipated maturity: 2002-2009
