Producer Note: Monique and Tessa Laroche, the charming mother and daughter team who run this pocket-sized (2500 cases) estate in La Roche Aux Moines (an appellation now with all of five proprietors), evidently have little need to make a living. How else to explain the mind-boggling fact that they continue to offer many vintages back to 1992 in commercial quantities? All the more amazing in view of the exemplary quality of the wines. Now, after an adulatory review from David Schildknecht in a well-known wine journal, everybody wants them. The estate has been certified “Organic” since the 2010 vintage.
Tasting Note: This vintage is the latest to have crossed over to what one might describe as its tertiary stage. There is a smoky quality to the aroma that does not exactly prepare you for the delicious fusion of marmalade fruit and piquant minerality on the palate, nor the intriguing chocolate nuance in the tail. A poetic wine that offers endlessly changing stimulation.