Anne-Francoise Gros, Richebourg Vintage:2023 This is almost as complex

This is almost as complex and aromatically pure as the ‘04 with notes of game

A discreet touch of reduction still allows the earthy red berry and black cherry aromas to express themselves

with youthfully firm tannins adding shape and final grip

(from two very large parcels of vines totaling over 3 ha)

It is opaque

Anne-Francoise Gros, Richebourg Vintage:2023 This is almost as complex(the Richebourg parcel now totals . 6 ha after it was combined with the vines that formerly belonged to Michel Gros, which he agreed to exchange so that he could keep the Vosne 1er Clos de Ras as a monopole of Domaine Michel Gros. The Richebourg vines have been replanted 3 times and they are now 15, 25 and 70 years of age). Strong reduction obliterates the nose though there is plenty of vibrancy and life to the mineral driven, intense and focused big