Taupenot Merme, Gevrey Chambertin Vintage:2012 expresses an elegant style of

expresses an elegant style of Leoville Barton

Finishes pure

allying maturing flavors with broad structural shoulders and racy acids and concluding with a long

especially for near and medium-term drinking

Clings with fantastic tenacity and focus

Taupenot Merme, Gevrey Chambertin Vintage:2012 expresses an elegant style of(from Craite Paille, Les Seuvres, Belair and La Justice). This is also relatively elegant and cool with its combination of wild red cherry, sauvage and discreet spice whiffs. The precise and almost lilting middleweight flavors possess a lovely sense of tension while displaying fine length on the youthfully austere and balanced finale. This could arguably use a bit better depth, but more should develop with a few years of keeping.