2007 Santenay Clos de Tavannes

The Pousse d’Or 2007 Santenay Clos Tavennes smells of fresh ripe cherry, cedar, and black pepper; offers juicy, almost exuberant fruit mid-palate; and finishes with chalk, cherry pit, bitter herbs, black tea, and pepper generating lovely contrast and counterpoint to the wine’s sweet fruit. Enjoy this over the next 3-5 years. Patrick Landanger’s recent vintages seem to reflect increasing confidence (not to mention consistency), displaying a sense of restraint while combining richness and transparency to detail. Between the threat of rot and of roasting, he observes, the 2007s required more rigorous sorting than did the fruit from 2008, with a correspondingly lower crop, but Landanger and his crew did an outstanding job in the face of 2007 adversities as well as in 2008. Importer: Langdon-Shiverick Imports, Cleveland, OH; tel. (216) 861 6800 and a Peter Vezan Selection (various importers), Paris; fax 011 33 1 42 55 42 93