The 2016 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Beaux Monts conveys a sense of strictness on the nose, distant at first with slightly darker and more introspective fruit compared to the Aux Br?lées. It takes some encouragement from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins on the entry, quite sappy in the mouth so that you can feel those saliva glands working toward the finish. But throughout it remains distant and refuses to give much away at the moment, so give it four or five years once in bottle.