Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche other_regions_italy As it often does this

As it often does this offers terrific quality for a villages level wine

The medium weight flavors possess a velvety and caressing mouthfeel before concluding in a sappy and dusty if mildly tangy finish

Juxtaposed against the 1996 Haut-Batailley I find more energy in this

cassis and red currant that are copiously laced with floral nuances

There is good punch to the fleshy midpalate of the medium-bodied flavors that possess a slightly dusty and mildly edgy but not really austere finish that is notably shorter than it usually is

Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche other_regions_italy As it often does this(to be bottled only in magnum). A moderately toasty nose offers up aromas of cassis, plum and forest floor along with a hint of smoke. The wood treatment extends to the palate as well as on the velvety but muscular big bodied flavors that terminate in a lightly stony, austere and very serious finish where a hint of bitter pit fruit surfaces. This is on the woody side today but since it will be 20 years before this reaches its full maturity, it should