The score for 2018 Lalou Bize Leroy Domaine d'Auvenay Auxey Duresses La Macabree is 92+ points from Robert Parker and the tasting note - Chiseled and tightly wound, the 2018 Auxey-Duresses La Macabrée unwinds in the glass with notes of pear, hazelnuts, citrus oil and white flowers. Medium to full-bodied, taut and incisive, it's deep and concentrated, with racy girdling acids and a long, chalky finish. Lalou Bize-Leroy is making wines not for the present, but for eternity. At least, that's the impression one derives when tasting the 2018s from Domaine Leroy and Domaine d'Auvenay. "We never truly know a wine," she mused, as we discussed various vintage's phases of evolution and the challenge of assigning drinking windows. "Why not put until the year 3,000?," she only half-jested. And it's clear that the wines reviewed here will enjoy prodigious longevity. The fruit of a viticulture as exigent as it is innovative, of derisory yields and meticulous but ultimately very traditional Burgundian winemaking, these are as fine 2018 Burgundies as readers will find, transcending the vintage's limitations in both red and white and maximizing its merits. Of course, given their structure and substance, it's no surprise that they're already beginning to shut down a little ("I can't remember wines being so grumpy," Lalou observed), and anyone with the means and opportunity—an increasingly rare combination—to acquire any when they are released will want to plan on exercising considerable patience too. Just how great the rewards of patience are at this address will be illustrated later this year, as Bize-Leroy has agreed to present a vertical tasting of her Vosne-Romanée Beaux Monts, an occasion that will provide the opportunity for an even deeper dive into the history and methods that have made this domaine what it is.