Sylvain Cathiard Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Aux Malconsorts 2018 [NET] champagne-club Drive northeast from Lyon toward

Drive northeast from Lyon toward Switzerland and the hills keep rising until they are full-grown Alps

cocoa nibs

The Olives for this bottle come from the older and best trees

Complexity in the form of dried fruit

restrained handling — no makeup

Sylvain Cathiard Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Aux Malconsorts 2018 [NET] champagne-club Drive northeast from Lyon toward2018 is the modern Burgundy vintage in its most generous mode a warm, ripe, abundant year that produced wines of immediate appeal, fuller bodied than the classical cool vintage profile but still capable of transparency in the right hands. Cathiard's Malconsorts in 2018 puts on the muscle without losing the address: the deep red clay of this climat, sitting flush against La Tche, channels the vintage's warmth into something fleshier and darker fruited