Savigny Narbantons, Domaine Leroy 2005

An expressive nose redolent of Savigny style earth with all of its pungency combines with black fruit that is spicy and pure and dissolves into textured, delicious and remarkably powerful flavors where the dry extract is palpable, all wrapped in a big and powerful finish that delivers a real sense of volume and terrific vibrancy. This is a big wine yet one that is balanced and relatively refined for what it is yet with the structure to age.

Smoke-, humus-, iodine-, blond tobacco- and wet-stone-inflected aromas in Leroy's 2005 Savigny-les-Beaune Les Narbantons suggest the almost Medoc-like elements that can accrue to wines from this site. With that usually goes plenty of structure, and the present example will disappoint no one in this regard, as there are abundant albeit fine tannins to chew on. Almost inevitably though, from stem to stern, this has the trademark Leroy sweetness and richness of in this case black cherry, and the plushness covering the tannins. It finishes with formidable cling of sweet fruit, tobacco, roasted meats, and wet stones.