Hudelot Noellat Richebourg Grand Cru 1980

Hudelot Noellat Richebourg Grand Cru 1980

red currant and black raspberry plus a touch of forest floor

concentrated and generously proportioned medium-bodied flavors that are blessed with plenty of dry extract that simultaneously coats the palate and buffers the moderately firm tannic spine

this is a big step up on the 2014

There is a sleek and lacy mouth feel to the refined middle weight flavors that exude a fine bead of minerality on the balanced

This promising effort appears to have more than enough density to eventually absorb the wood treatment

A beautifully comple nose of secondary fruit

It is difficult for readers who have never tasted Cuvee Madame to imagine a wine of such honeyed richness

It offers ripe dark cherry

showing good backbone

Excellent as an aperitif or with white meat

from a cooler zone of the valley

offering jammy fruit