2002 Richebourg

Dark red. Cooler, more perfumed aromas of red cherry, minerals and red licorice. Wonderfully urgent, minerally wine with compelling vibrancy and delineation of flavor. Finishes with terrific power and thrust and explosive length. This is a more vertical wine, while the Romanee-Saint-Vivant is more horizontal. Here, too, Lalou Bize prefers the 2002 to the '99, which she described as a more brutal style.