2003 Domaine du Clos de Tart 'Clos de Tart' Grand Cru Monopole, Cote de Nuits, France 1.5L

"This is enormously ripe and explodes from the glass with warm wood-framed aromas of coffee, tobacco, plum, prune, smoked meat and dried herbs that introduce massively constituted though not incredibly structured flavors of serious size, weight and depth that are blessed with buckets of extract that completely buffer the firm and ripe tannic backbone. This is not my style but it's not imbalanced or unduly warm and it's a wine that will live for 50 years, perhaps longer. Like the '05, it's clear that my first in-bottle review was too optimistic in terms of the initial drinking window and as such, I have extended it."