2007 Alain Hudelot Noellat, Romanee Saint Vivant

An ultra elegant, high-toned and pure nose mixes red and blue pinot fruit, violets, soy, anise and clove where the spice notes continue onto rich and generous flavors that retain a fine sense of detail and underlying tension on the highly persistent finale. This is not a truly great RSV by the substantial Hudelot standards but rather an exercise in class, grace and harmony.