D. Faiveley Chambertin Clos de Beze 'les Ouvrees Rodin' Grand Cru 2015 Volume:750ML This is excellent quality with

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A much more floral-inflected nose is equally fresh and ripe with a broader range of spice elements adding breadth to the pretty red and blue pinot fruit aromas that are trimmed in noticeable if not invasive wood

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D. Faiveley Chambertin Clos de Beze 'les Ouvrees Rodin' Grand Cru 2015 Volume:750ML This is excellent quality withHere the wood and menthol influences are a good deal less subtle and while they don't dominate the even spicier and slightly riper liqueur like cassis, plum and herbal tea aromas, they're certainly in the way. Otherwise the succulent and opulent massively scaled flavors possess seemingly endless reserves of dry extract that make the mid palate and finish of this very firmly structured and almost painfully intense effort appear almost pliant.