Sylvain Cathiard & Fils Vosne-Romanee 2016

A cool and restrained lightly spiced nose of ripe red currant, plum and violet is trimmed in just enough wood to mention. The caressing middle-weight flavours are blessed with an abundance of dry extract that imparts a sleek and seductive mouthfeel as well as buffers the overtly firm tannic spine of this dense and powerful effort. I like the balance but even so, it's going to require at least a few years of cellaring as it's presently quite tightly wound.