2005 Savigny Les Beaune Les Marconnets

Both significantly darker in color and in shade of fruit than the wines that preceded it, the Bize 2005 Savigny-les-Beaune Les Marconnets features blackberries, walnut oil, wet stone, wood smoke, and roasted meats. Fuller and fatter than its stable mates, this is also somewhat more obvious in tannin than most of Bize’s wines. But it displays impressive density, fine structure and incipient complexity and should reward 8-12 years of cellaring. ||Malolactic fermentations took place without delay and Patrick Bize had bottled many of the wines already in November. A significant portion of whole clusters were included in most of the fermentations. Wines from this address seldom make concessions to early drinkability or cheap thrills, and the inherently concentrated, darkly toned 2005s are certainly no exception.||A Becky Wassserman Selection (various importers), Le Serbet, Beaune; fax 011-33-3-80-24-29-70. Wine Advocate.June, 2007