2013 Vosne Romanee Cros Parantoux
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Dark red with ruby highlights. Wild aromas of blackberry, smoky minerality, fresh blood, game and coffee torrefaction. Plush and superconcentrated, conveying a sexy restrained sweetness to its soil-driven dark fruit and mineral flavors. This distinctly dense, saline wine boasts a terrific combination of power and amplitude and finishes with strong, ripe, building tannins and terrific persistence. A classic vin de terroir for the cellar.
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Neal Martin
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Brght, deep red. Nose disturbed by unconverted malic acidity. Very pure and tactile on the palate, displaying impressive intensity to its biting black fruit and saline flavors. Boasts superb incipient complexity but this is still in the middle of its secondary fermentation. Finishes with terrific mounting stony length. With its almost 2010-like inner-mouth tension, this infant holds out outstanding potential.
The 2013 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Cros Parantoux was enduring an extremely long malolactic when I tasted it from barrel in December 2014. So yes, the nose is difficult to assess but the palate is very well defined and the mineralité already shines through. I like the primal energy here, the finish tense and full of frisson that bodes well for whenever it deigns us with its presence. Will it match the imperious 2012? Hmm...not quite sure about that, but it should be a worthy follow-up.
The 2013 Vosne-Romanee 1er Cru Cros Parantoux was enduring an extremely long malolactic when I tasted it from barrel in December 2014. So yes, the nose is difficult to assess but the palate is very well defined and the mineralite already shines through. I like the primal energy here, the finish tense and full of frisson that bodes well for whenever it deigns us with its presence. Will it match the imperious 2012? Hmm...not quite sure about that, but it should be a worthy follow-up. Jan 2015, www.robertparker.com