This is also intensely floral and if not quite as elegant as the RSV it is arguably even more aromatically complex with wonderfully fresh and relatively expressive notes of hoisin, black fruit, soy and anise. There is remarkable concentration of dry extract that completely buffers the otherwise tightly wound tannic spine while pushing it to the background as the broad-shouldered flavors culminate in a balanced, long and velvety mineral-inflected finish that delivers astonishing persistence. While the Domaine's 2011s will in general drink well earlier than is typical, the Riche may be an exception to that generalization.

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Saturated deep ruby-red. Knockout aromas of purple fruits, violet and crushed stone. Dense, sweet and electric, with terrific peppery, spicy lift to the dense dark fruit flavors. More sharply delineated and less chocolatey than the Romanee-Saint-Vivant but nonetheless superripe on the muscular, very long back end.

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