2021 Alain Hudelot-Noellat, Romanee-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru, Bottle (750ml)

Here the expressive nose offers up plenty of forest floor, indeed almost a sous-bois element, on the spicy and floral-suffused nose. The intense and refined middleweight flavors possess a silky mid-palate texture that contrasts markedly with the powerful, serious, youthfully austere and quite firmly structured finale. This is impressive but note well that's not a seductive RSV, indeed it's also going to require extended patience to arrive at its peak.