To good beginnings! When I began collecting Burgundies in the early 1990s, I started out by buying some Ponsot wines, including the 1988 Clos de la Roche, which was already regarded as one of the top cuvées in Burgundy. I followed that with some 1990 Griottes-Chambertin. Those wines are long gone, …
Morey Saint Denis Monts Luisants
Domaine Ponsot, Morey Les Alouettes 2011
Ponsot seem to have nailed the 2011 vintage. The Morey-Saint-Denis Les Alouettes - made from the 1er cru Monts Luisants - is really showing well. The nose is forward offering quite refined notes of red berry fruit, plum, violets and a earthy minerality - quite sweet and ripe. On the palate rich and …
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