Hudelot's top wine in 1987 is the Romanee St.-Vivant. Still closed, with high acidity, this wine exhibited plenty of excellent richness and ripeness. However, it is not close to being ready to drink and is another candidate for laying away for 2 to 3 years until its tannins soften. Alain Hudelot is a serious winemaker, but he falls victim to the practice of filtering his wines too vigorously at the time of bottling. He has made very good 1987s, but one suspects these scores would be from 2 to 5 points higher had there not been such a traumatic filtration.