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The Cuvée Vieilles Vignes 2009 is another top Clos de Vougeot ... surprisingly balanced for this rather hot and ripe year. The nose is very vinous with ripe fruit - expressive and quite forward for the age and the vintage. On the palate rich, weighty with a long quite firmly structured finish. I …
[Read more...] about Chateau de la Tour Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes 2009
The Cuvée Vieilles Vignes 2013 is a big but surprisingly refined effort without the slight roughness many 2013s have. In the nose pure ripe fruits - oak well integrated - with a nice focus and transparency. On the palate, rich almost voluptous with a lovely silky mid-palate fruit. The 2013 acidity …
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The Clos de Vougeot is also showing a fine potential - although not as expressive as the Ruchottes. The nose is brimming with layers of ripe fruit - a bit more densely and darker expressed but still with a fine freshness and a fine earthy minerality. On the palate rich almost velvet with a weighty …
[Read more...] about Domaine Mugneret-Gibourg, Clos de Vougeot 2015
The Echezeaux is another beauty - made from the two climats - Rouges du Bas (a plot just above Echezeaux du Dessus, and a plot in Les Quartiers de Nuits. The nose is offering a lovely almost floral expression of red and darker fruits brought forward by a quite intense mineral note. On the palate …
[Read more...] about Domaine Mugneret-Gibourg, Echezeaux 2015
The 2010 Meursault Charmes cuvee 1913 is a memorable wine made from a plot with vines planted in 1913. The nose offer rich and pure yellow and white orchard fruits - pure and generous with a fine deep minerality. On the palate intense and quite weighty with a rich and almost silky midpalate fruit .. …
[Read more...] about Domaine Mikulski, Meursault Charmes “cuvee 1913” 2010
