Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche Vintage:2014 offering sweet black raspberry and

offering sweet black raspberry and floral pastille flavors braced by smoky minerality

40 ha parcel of vines that average about 40 years of age)

Here too the menthol character isn’t subtle though neither is it especially invasive on the layered aromas of blue and red pinot fruit

lush and fruity with its layers of licorice infused plums

the wine is deceiving in that it starts off slowly

Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche Vintage:2014 offering sweet black raspberry and(to be bottled only in magnum). A moderately toasty nose offers up aromas of cassis, plum and forest floor along with a hint of smoke. The wood treatment extends to the palate as well as on the velvety but muscular big bodied flavors that terminate in a lightly stony, austere and very serious finish where a hint of bitter pit fruit surfaces. This is on the woody side today but since it will be 20 years before this reaches its full maturity, it should