Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2017 Ningxia The palate is surprisingly polished

The palate is surprisingly polished

A close second (and who knows how they might perform at different times and with different foods) is the 2012 Cariad Proprietary Red Wine

It is magnificent: blackberry

even viscous texture

Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2017 Ningxia The palate is surprisingly polishedAn overtly floral and markedly earthy nose is quite restrained if exceptionally pretty with its cool array of red and blue pinot fruit scents laced with hints of leather and herbal tea. There is terrific vibrancy to the slightly more muscular large scaled flavors that culminate in a linear and beautifully delineated finish that really firms up as it sits on the palate. This taut, youthfully austere and very serious effort is very much built to age and