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Grands Crus
La Grande Rue, Monopole
Clos-de-Vougeot
Grands-Échezeaux
Échezeaux
Premiers Crus
Vosne-Romanée La Croix Rameau
Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts
Vosne-Romanée Les Chaumes
Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots
Nuits-St-Georges Les Cras
Appelations Village et Bourgogne
Vosne-Romanée
Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits
Bourgogne Passetoutgrain
Bourgogne Aligoté (blanc)
Bourgogne
SOIL
Clay-limestone
ORIENTATION
Due east
SURFACE AREA
3.33 acres
GRAPE VARIETY
100% Pinot Noir
AVERAGE AGE OF THE VINES
30 year old
AVERAGE YIELD
32 hectolitres per hectare maximum: about 7,000 bottles
Hand picked, 80 to 100% de-stemmed depending on the vintage.
Vatting period of about 15 to 18 days, in open oak vats at a low temperature (controlled by thermo-regulation).
In oak casks for between 16 and 20 months (between 60 and 100% new oak depending on the vintage).
Bottled with no fining and no filtering .
Depending on your personal tastes and the vintage, between 6 and 30 years.
With all kinds of red meat, game and cheeses.
Display tasting notes for this wine.
Millésime 2005
Blind tasting, Sept. 2008 - Medium-full colour. Stylish nose. Ripe, oaky and profound. Medium-full body. Very good grip. Good tannins. Vigorous and long and with lots of potential. Nicely minerally at the end. Very fine. From 2015. 18.5
Mar/Apr 08 - Good full red. Pungent aromas of cherry, menthol and nutty oak. Sweet, concentrated red fruit flavors are intensified by underlying minerality, giving the wine a real palate-staining quality. A dry, broad wine with a light touch in spite of its strength of material. 91
Millésime 2006
Tasted in 2009 - Fullish colour. Abundant, quite oaky nose, if no great concentration. Medium-full body. The fruit is classy and the wine well-balanced. Finishes positively. Very good. From 2014. 16.0
January 2008 - (from 3 different parcels, one at the bottom and two at the top but on opposite sides). A discreet touch of wood spice frames the earthy and ripe but reticent nose of red pinot fruit and violets where the earth continues onto the very rich and big-bodied flavors that possess ample muscle and plenty of sap buffered the very firm and tannic finish that is classic Clos de Vougeot with its pronounced youthful austerity. This is really quite promising. 2016+ 90-93
Mar/Apr 08 - Moderately saturated medium red. Medicinal aromas of red cherry, fresh herbs, licorice and exotic spices. Offers lovely sweetness and intensity of flavor, with a firm tannic spine giving it structure and grip. This boasts good breadth but shows some slightly bitter medicinal austerity and is evolving very slowly. Marie-Blanche says the family owns parcels at the top, middle and bottom of this huge grand cru vineyard. 89-92
"Déjà Bu" Tasting, 2009 15.35 (all testers, avg.)
Millésime 2007
Tasted in London with Justerini & Brooks. This has a lovely, sensuous nose: warm and inviting. Rounded strawberry and red cherry with an underlying minerality. The palate is well-structured, clean and précised with sharp acidity on the tart, citrus finish. Very fine. Drink now-2018. Tasted January 2009. 89-90
January 2009 - (from 3 different parcels, one at the bottom and two at the top but on opposite sides). Here there is significantly better absorption of the wood treatment with earthy dark berry fruit aromas trimmed in much more discreet oak notes that in this case do not continue onto the rich, full and serious medium-bodied flavors that possess slightly better volume if a bit less complexity on the youthfully austere but notably persistent finish. 2015+ 90-93
Aromatic and quite delicate, restrained. Richer on the palate but still fragrant. Marked acidity at the moment but with the depth of fruit to become more rounded with time. Drink 2011-16. 17