2015 Vosne Romanee Les Malconsorts
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The Malconsort 2015 is also a big vinous wine. The nose offer plenty of ripe fruit – juicy and fresh – supported by a fine floral minerality – 50% whole cluster was used. On the palate intense, vinous and weighty – with a fine energy and balance despite the relatively high level of alcohol. It’s actually a quite elegant wine given it’s vinous character and there are no signs of overripeness. A very fine Malconsort in the making. Jun 2016, www.winehog.org
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Steen Öhman, Winehog
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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(from a whopping 1.76 ha parcel). A notably ripe and wonderfully spicy nose reflects notes of liqueur-like dark cherry, cassis, plum and violet. The dense, serious and markedly powerful big-bodied flavors brim with dry extract before terminating in a muscular and impressively long finish that also displays a hint of warmth. This is an imposingly-scaled and quite firmly structured effort that will require 12 to 15 years of bottle to arrive at its apogee. Patience. Dec 2016, www.burghound.com
The 2015 Vosne Romanee 1Er Cru les Malconsorts, which is under the Domaine du Clos Frantin, comes from 1.8 hectares of vine spread over different parcels. This has a more opulent bouquet compared directly with Bichot's Amoureuses, laden with glossy red cherry and blueberry fruit that perhaps disguise the terroir expression at the moment. The palate is smooth and rounded with good depth, layers of sweet red fruit tinged with white pepper and spice box, though it needs more refinement and precision to develop on the finish that seems too eager to make an impression, whereas the Amoureuses lets the terroir do all the talking. Less might have made a more convincing Les Malconsorts? Dec 2016, www.robertparker.com
About the producer
Based in Nuits-Saint-Georges, Domaine du Clos Frantin is Albert Bichot’s top estate. The domaine has an exceptional range of Grand Cru and Premier Cru sites in the Côte de Nuits and has for several years been producing top drawer-Burgundy.