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Tasting note
The lone barrel of Le Moine 2008 Romanee St.-Vivant (half of the previous year's production, it will be sadly noted) explodes from the glass with an entire garden's worth of flowers - heliotrope, narcissus, and hibiscus being noteworthy - allied to blueberry and cassis. In its floral and fruit profusion this is like the alter-ego of the Gaudichots, and displays a subtler sense of minerality, suggesting salt, kelp, and peat. This is velvety in texture, seemingly effortlessly refined, pure-fruited, vibrant, buoyant, and transparent to myriad nuances, so that the finish fascinates like watching a shower of petals or a cloud of butterflies. And I predict that this will still be flying high 20 years from now.
Score: 96-97
David Schildknecht, The Wine Advocate, June 2010
