Critic Notes
This is a very structured wine with a very expressive spiciness – classic Richebourg offering plenty of airy fruit and a cool and vibrant side of the 2015 vintage. The nose is bursting with cool red and dark fruit and almost exploding with Vosne spices – violets, peony rose, rose petals. On the palate largely framed with a elegant and structured mid-palate fruit – transparent and very floral for a 2015 Richebourg. This is an extraordinary Richebourg in the making, as the delightful airy balance is a great achievement in this vintage. Jan 2017, www.winehog.org
Score: 97-98/100Steen Öhman, Winehog
The 2015 Richebourg Grand Cru was picked on 8 and 9 September at 24 hectoliters per hectare. It took its time to open up despite rigorous coaxing - more so than the Romanée Saint Vivant (although it is usually thus). Eventually it offers a very precise but broody nose, slightly darker fruit than the Romanée Saint Vivant: blackberry, cranberry leaf, a hint of damp moss on a late October morning. The palate has stunning balance and is underpinned by filigree tannin. There appears to be slightly more red fruit than the nose suggests and it segues into a structured and imperious, conspicuously saline finish that lingers for more than a minute in the mouth. This is a regal Richebourg. Dec 2016, www.robertparker.com, Drink: 2025-2060
Score: 96-98/100Neal MartinDrinking Window: 2025-2060
The 2015 Richebourg Grand Cru is very good indeed, offering up a pure and surprisingly expressive nose of strawberry, dried rose, plum preserve, roast squab, raw cocoa and incipient rich soil tones, framed by some nutty new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, multidimensional and rich, sweet fruit playing in counterpoint with sapid, savory nuance. This Richebourg is denser at the core and less expansive than the corresponding Romanee-St-Vivant, and though the grain of its tannins is similar, their impact is more assertive and muscular. Cropped at 24 hectoliters per hectare and harvested September 8 and 9. Feb 2018, www.robertparker.com
Score: 96-/100William Kelley
Subtle wood spice, violet, lavender, cassis, plum, tea and warm earth aromas combine to introduce incredibly rich, full-bodied, gorgeously complex and mouth coating flavors that possess near-perfect balance on the overtly powerful, sappy and explosively persistent mineral-driven finish. This is very firmly structured yet two important aspects render this entirely civilized: 1) the tannins are unusually fine-grained, and 2) there is so much dry extract present on the mid-palate that the backend does not possess its usual level of youthful austerity. Like the RSV, this is textbook Riche built to last for decades. Dec 2016, www.burghound.com
Score: 94-97/100Allen Meadows, Burghound
