2011 Vosne Romanee Cros Parantoux
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Bright, full medium red. Pungent stony minerality dominates the nose. Juicy and imploded on the palate, with terrific chewy depth and a weightless quality to its intense, lightly saline flavors of dark berries, minerals, spices and flowers. Finishes with palate-staining power and subtle rising length. This vibrant, rather powerful wine is almost painful today, as there's nothing sweet or easy about it. Demands at least six to eight years of cellaring.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Good bright, full red. The ripest of these 2011s on the nose, showing an almost exotic candied quality to its aromas of red and darker berries, crushed stone and menthol. At once silky and energetic, boasting terrific fruit intensity and brisk but harmonious acidity. Finishes very long, with suave tannins and excellent cut and grip. Rouget suggests aging this wine for eight to ten years, and predicts that it will be much rounder by 2020. A beauty in the making.
A highly perfumed nose of pure essence of red pinot fruit along with a panoply of spice elements leads to solidly powerful and well-detailed flavors that are built on a base of almost pungent minerality. There is excellent length and plenty of supporting material and it seems reasonably clear that this is the best in show chez Rouget in 2011. Tasted: Jan 14, 2013. Drink: 2023+