Vosne Romanee Suchots, Domaine de Bellene 2016 (OCC 6)

Description

By Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate in 2017 (WA90)

The 2016 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru les Suchots, taken from cask and due for racking in February, offers ripe red cherries, biberry and hints of marmalade on the forward and expressive nose. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannin, quite firm in the mouth, masculine with a slightly stolid finish that needs to find more grace and opulence.

By Wine Spectator in 2019 (WS92)

This is notably ripe and not quite as fresh as the Chaumes with its floral-inflected nose of liqueur of dark cherry and wide range of spice elements. There is excellent richness to the impressively concentrated medium-bodied flavors that possess a velvety, even suave mouth feel before culminating in a balanced and complex finale that delivers just a bit more persistence