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The Vosne Romanee Clos du Chateau 2005 is already showing beautifully. On the nose fine and delicate organic red fruit .. offering a wide selection of Vosne spices - slightly more closed than the one I tasted earlier this year. On the palate quite open with a lovely expressive red fruit, intense for …
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The 2004 is now almost fully mature and showing very well for the vintage. The bouquet offer delicate mature red fruit, sous-bois, with hints of violets, cinnamon and allspice. On the palate quite light with a delicate and slightly fragile fruit. A refined and very enjoyable 2004 village ... quite …
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The 2003 Clos du Chateau is a balanced effort for the vintage. The nose offer rich and quite opulent red berry fruit, Vosne spices and some very ripe notes of prune. On the palate rich and weighty with sweet ripe red fruit. I'm not a big fan of the 03 vintage ... to say it mildly, but this is quite …
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The 2002 Clos du Chateau is still quite youthful but is slowly but surely getting some matured notes. The bouquet is offering lovely red berry fruit, lovely minerality and a wide selection of Vosne spices ... quite expessive. On the palate more weight and fruit than both the 2000 and the 2001 ... …
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The 2001 Clos du Chateau is a step up from the delicate and slightly fragile 2000. It's approaching full maturity .. expressive but still with that slightly edgy style of the 01 vintage. In the nose red berry fruit - expressive with sous-bois and loads of Vosne spices. On the palate more weight and …
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