Egly-Ouriet, Brut Millesime Vintage:2016

Egly-Ouriet, Brut Millesime Vintage:2016Revisited from the July 2019 disgorgement, Egly's 2008 Brut Grand Cru Millsime was showing as brilliantly as ever. The wine seemed to shut down a little in early 2020, but it is already beginning to unwind, and this was the most expressive bottle that I've drunk to date. Offering up an incipiently complex bouquet of orchard fruit, citrus oil, pralines and freshly baked bread, now complemented by hints of iodine, clear honey and mirabelle plum, it's

elegant beauty that offers lots of minerality

torrefaction

it’s naturally less fine and elegant

dark fruit

It is drinking quite well and exhibiting no reason to extend its aging

tilled soil and mossy bark over a core of fresh blackcurrants

the use of French oak has become more measured and the Barolos are now among the elite wines of the region in virtually every vintage

This isn’t a big wine but the superb detail and unmatched precision are stunning but be aware that it will be a wine for the patient as this is very understated at present and will very definitely require at least a decade of cellar time to really open up

This expands outwards from the first moment

40% whole cluster

Bright ruby-red

The wine is medium-bodied