Comte Liger Belair, Romanee Vintage:2011 The nicely elegant but tautly

The nicely elegant but tautly muscular middle weight plus flavors possess obvious muscle on the powerful

(70% whole clusters)

tobacco leaf and floral notes stand out here

floral and spice

oak-spiced finish

Comte Liger Belair, Romanee Vintage:2011 The nicely elegant but tautlyRelatively strong reduction flattens the fruit and renders the nose impossible to comment on. Otherwise there is excellent richness to the cool mineral tinged and seductively textured middle weight flavors that possess a really lovely sense of underlying tension on the clean and pure finish that delivers strikingly good length. 2012 is not an opulent vintage for this wine, in fact it's almost delicate but the gorgeous balance and mid palate