This impressive wine reveals a medium-to-dark ruby color and aromas of perfumed and floral black cherries. On the palate, this medium-to-full-bodied, ripe, succulent, and oily-textured wine offers copious quantities of sweet cherries, and black raspberries. It is harmonious, intense, expansive, and extremely well-balanced. Projected maturity: 1999-2004.
In a vintage where high yields were the norm, Bernard Morey harvested the Santenay Grand Clos Rousseau at 32 hectoliters/hectare.
Bernard Morey and his sons crafted seven lovely 1996 red Burgundies, many from old vines. Moreover, all of them are reasonably priced.
Importer: Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL; tel (205) 980-8802.