Roche Bellene, Batard Montrachet Size:3x750ml Belair and La Justice)

Belair and La Justice)

which is surprising at close to 20 years of age

with the result that the wine is not at all overly oaky

--'95/'96 Bordeaux retrospective

Note that this well-made effort is going to require at least a few years of patience first

Roche Bellene, Batard Montrachet Size:3x750ml Belair and La Justice)(from the Puligny side). This is also sufficiently reduced to render an assessment of the nose impossible. There is equally good volume and mid palate density to the powerful and imposingly scaled flavors that brim with sappy dry extract on the impressively persistent finale that is quite firm, indeed this will very likely require a decade or more to realize its full potential.