Gros Frere et Soeur, Richebourg 2011

The Richebourg 2011 from Gros Frere et Soeur is a strong display of Vosne terroir. The bouquet offer a lovely spicy minerality with notes of violets, all spice, liquorice, coffee and red berry fruit. On the palate quite rich fruit with a powerful backbone of minerality. It’s a quite complex despite the quite heavy oak notes, and the long and intense mineralic finish is textbook Richebourg. A very fine Richebourg in the making.

(Drink from 2024) – Very Fine 93 – 94p – Tasted 18/03/2013 at the Trilogie in Vosne – Barrel sample.

Tasting Notes for this producer

• Gros Frere et Soeur, Richebourg 2012 May 26, 2014
• Gros Frere et Soeur, Richebourg 2011 April 26, 2013
• Gros Frere et Soeur, Grands Echezeaux 2011 April 25, 2013
• Gros Frere et Soeur, Clos de Vougeot 1976 October 5, 2012

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