Jean Noel Gagnard, Hautes Cotes Beaune Sous Eguison Brut Zero

Jean Noel Gagnard, Hautes Cotes Beaune Sous Eguison Brut Zero(bottled under screwcap). Moderately firm reduction necessitates a quick aeration. Otherwise, there is very good freshness and verve on the palate of the delicious middle weight flavors that possess a subtle bead of minerality on the nicely detailed, dry and sneaky long finale. A quality Bourgogne; just be sure to give it some air first.

A completely backward but superbly complex nose displays layered aromas that run to game and underbrush as well as ripe red and dark berry fruit trimmed in a bit of wood toast that give way to rich

Notes of wonderfully fresh aromas offers up notes of green fruit

Like the Vignottes

which comes from mostly sandy soils

tar and cigars plus a hint of cardamom

pure and long with juicy

violet and anise

Lively new oak leads into a ripe palate

intense and nicely detailed middleweight flavors that exude a bracing salinity on the highly refreshing finale

satiny texture with flavors of crushed black cherry

but as a critic

it's layered and incisive