Beaune 1er Cru Cuvée Clos des Avaux 2015155th Hospices De Beaune Wine Auction on the 15th November 2015 Beaune 1er Cru, Cuve Clos des Avaux Hospices de Beaune 2015 This 1st Growth Beaune Cuve is always a wine of good fruit, but requiring significant barrel and bottle ageing to bring it to softness and complex maturity. Colour is rich purple, the nose being powerful, ripe and complex. 1st impression on the palate is of full, rich fruitiness, continuing all the way to a beautifully gentle,

was nonetheless showing a lot of reduction on the nose

By contrast there is good freshness and punch to the very rich and mouth coating flavors that deliver solid depth and length on the moderately rustic finale

This vintage is a blend of 63% Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2014 Canon la Gaffeliere has a fruit-driven

the nose is at once profound and arresting

Robert Parker: 93-95+/100

There can be no doubt that we drink during the meal with red meat

although they are not obtrusive and appear neatly embroidered into the multi-layered black fruit

elegant and sophisticated

Here the restrained nose is more complex still with its spicy and earthy array of red and dark currant scents

The middle weight and caressing flavors possess a slightly finer mouthfeel that is at once firm but elegant thanks to the relatively fine grain of the supporting tannins shaping the moderately firm and youthfully austere finish

The bubbles are moderately fine and very persistent