Robert Ampeau & Fils Savigny les Beaune 2002 PURYEAR Would do well in many

Would do well in many cocktails but has enough complexity to hold its own

A mix of twenty-nine herbs

The wine balances full body with aromatic complexity

cracker-like malt body and a tantalizingly bitter finish

but easy-drinking bottle of bubbly

Robert Ampeau & Fils Savigny les Beaune 2002 PURYEAR Would do well in manyDomaine Robert Ampeau has one of the strangest business models in Burgundy: they will not sell you the wine until they think it is ready. Bottles go into the family's famously cold Meursault cellars and simply stay there, for decades, until someone decides the moment has come then they get inspected, cleaned up, labeled and released. Which is why a red from the 2002 vintage is showing up now, with more than twenty years of quiet aging already behind