Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche Vintage:2012 La Joie is another winner

La Joie is another winner from Vérité

my favorite wine from Muga

Still youthful on the nose

the Gavarini Chiniera exudes richness from the get-go

don’t plan on drinking a bottle for at least another 5-8 years

Benjamin Leroux, Clos Roche Vintage:2012 La Joie is another winner(to be bottled only in magnum). A moderately toasty nose offers up aromas of cassis, plum and forest floor along with a hint of smoke. The wood treatment extends to the palate as well as on the velvety but muscular big bodied flavors that terminate in a lightly stony, austere and very serious finish where a hint of bitter pit fruit surfaces. This is on the woody side today but since it will be 20 years before this reaches its full maturity, it should