The 2005 Richebourg Grand Cru marks the transition to the domaine's contemporary style, wafting from the glass with a rich and fruit-driven bouquet of cassis, plums and black raspberries that's framed by a lavish application of creamy new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, dense and concentrated, with a deep and fleshy profile that's still quite wrapped up in its fine-grained tannic chassis, buttressed by tangy acids. In its impactful, modernist style it's quite a success, though it's still several years away from prime-time drinking.