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The Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes 2010 from Domaine Ponsot is a sleeping beauty. The bouquet is quite closed revealing little of all the beautiful fruit that is crammed into this wine. The nose nevertheless offer some fine notes of strawberries, blue berries and pomegranate. The palate is more …
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The Clos de Vougeot is a step up in concentration from the more mineral driven Echezeaux. In the bouquet pure red wild berries spiced with hints of oak and chocolate. On the palate quite dense and with a powerful midpalate fruit - juicy and quite fresh - with a good energy and intensity. A bigger …
The Clos de Vougeot 2010 from Regis Forey is a big and somewhat aloof wine. The bouquet offers dark berry fruit with notes of dark cherries, raspberries and hints of chocolate and violets. On the palate quite dense with a supple quite expressive fruit on the midpalate. It's long and intense with a …
The 2007 Meo-Camuzet Clos de Vougeot is open and ready for tasting. In the bouquet raspberries, sweet strawberries and redcurrant with hints of pomegranate and peony rose. Surprisingly red, open and accessible. On the palate fine red and dark berries, a nice minerality and grip. Quite openly knit …
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The Clos de Vougeot 1976 from Gros Frere et Soeur is keeping remarkably well but is nevertheless in slight decline. Have tasted this wine several times around 15 to 20 years back, and it was fully mature then, and is now on a slow descent. In the bouquet quite hot notes with prunes and a slight hint …
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