There is a fabulous purity to the fruit and a lushness to the texture that lets you know

This feels very lively and energetic

This is quite an elegant wine with lovely harmony and strikingly good balance

white cherry

The 1989s and 1990s are reviewed in this issue’s What About Now feature

DRC, Tache Vintage:2012 There is a fabulous purityAs it was from cask this is more restrained than usual and it requires aggressive swirling to coax the pure and spicy essence of red berry fruit aromas to emerge from the glass where there is a slight hint of herbal tea present. There is a similar reserve to the distinctly focused and linear flavors that enjoy a seemingly unlimited reserve of dry extract that renders the fine grained and silky tannins almost invisible at present though I suspect that