Domaine Michele & Patrice Rion, Vosne-Romanee Village, 2023 Win Back Winter 2020 and a touch of flinty

and a touch of flinty minerality add further intrigue

Château Haut-Bergey’s Pessac-Léognan Rouge 2019 is a balanced

for the year these ungrafted Pinot Noir vines were planted: 1955

Aged exclusively in hand-picked Oloroso sherry-seasoned oak casks from Jerez

cherry—with floral aromatics

Domaine Michele & Patrice Rion, Vosne-Romanee Village, 2023 Win Back Winter 2020 and a touch of flintyA village Vosne from one of Premeaux's most careful hands. Vosne Romane is the most coveted address in the Cte de Nuits, and even at the village tier it's a wine that wears its DNA on its sleeve that telltale Vosne perfume, that mineral lift. Patrice Rion built his domaine in 1990 with his wife Michle; their son Maxime joined in 2005 and has been fully in charge since 2015, with a deft, traditionalist touch. 2023 brought generous but balanced reds