1987 Vosne Romanee Les Suchots

The best wine of Arnoux is usually his Vosne-Romanee Les Suchots, and the 1987 shows excellent ripeness, a spicy, berry, herbaceous-scented fruitiness, smooth texture, and light tannins in the finish. I think admirers of Robert Arnoux's wines will find his 1987s to be good to very good, and only a notch below the quality of his excellent 1985s.They are vastly superior to his somewhat fragile, light, overcropped 1986s. All his 1987s share in common a suppleness, velvety texture, and forward, ripe, precocious personality. There is not a wine in his stable that I would not consume between now and 1994-1995.