Chateau de la Tour, Clos Vougeot Vv Vintage:2021 backward and brooding nose reluctantly Zaca Mesa Vineyard Viognier & Rousanne backward and brooding nose reluctantly gives up hints of very earthy dark pinot fruit nuanced by a distinct animale hint that merges into broad shouldered flavors that offer excellent volume and concentration that finishes with just a hint of dryness and plenty of minerality more volume and it's quite open and expressive concentrated yet impressively refined wine with plenty of inner mouth perfume as well as an abundance of palate coating old vine sap that serves to cushion the still quite firm tannic spine on the strikingly persistent finish floral hints that combine with moderate wood influence