The 1961 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Cuvée Vieilles Vignes is another wine that blossoms with time in the glass. Offering up a deep and complex bouquet of dark berries, confit orange, rich spices and vine smoke, it's full-bodied, fleshy and concentrated, with a powerful, muscular profile in contrast to the more elegant, seamless 1971. Concluding with a long, penetrating finish still marked by some residual chalky tannin, I would have loved to follow a bottle over several hours.