The dark-colored Clos de La Roche offers powerful blackberry and cassis fruit with clean earthy aromas. Chewy flavors of sweet and lush stones, minerals, mocha and earth are ensconced in super-ripe black cherries. This is a powerful, full-bodied, huge, yet feminine, highly structured wine with an extremely long finish. Anticipated maturity: 2003-2015. Bravo! This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. The wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Pinot Noir, a fragile varietal, reacts poorly to fining, filtration, and careless bottling techniques, I recommend caution when considering buying a red burgundy based on cask samples. I called it as I tasted it, and hope the bottled wine reflects the quality of the samples I was provided. Each of Domaine Lecheneaut's offerings is a pleasure to recommend. These wines are lush and sweet but capable of aging well, as the 1990s I have in my cellar continue to prove. Importer: Robert Kacher Selections, Washington, DC; tel. (202) 832-9083.