Rollin, Pernand-Vergelesses Rouge 1er Cru Les Vergelesses, 2016 21225BORCHAMP giving way to fresher notes

giving way to fresher notes of rose petals

Marc and cousins Ralph and Ronald carry the torch from the family's cellars north of Beirut

Decant generously if drinking young

more structured vintage than the warm 2011

terroir-driven Barolo can look like

Rollin, Pernand-Vergelesses Rouge 1er Cru Les Vergelesses, 2016 21225BORCHAMP giving way to fresher notesTen years on, this is Pernand Vergelesses doing what Pernand does best: slow, unhurried ripening on slopes tucked into nooks off the Cote d'Or's famous east facing line, and none of the heaviness that creeps into warmer sites. Les Vergelesses is the southernmost of Domaine Rollin's premier crus, planted to vines well past fifty years old, and it has always been the gentlest and most supple of their reds Les Fichots, immediately to the north on clay