2018 Clos Vougeot
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The 2018 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru has a juicy nose with dark berry fruit, cola and touches of brown spice. The palate is medium-bodied with an aniseed tinged entry, light tannins, rather worked with a simple, bretty finish. I don't quite get this wine it just feels lackluster. Pleasurable but I need to see more complexity evolve on the finish. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 red tasting.
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Neal Martin, Vinous
Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
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The 2018 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru has a juicy nose with dark berry fruit, cola and touches of brown spice. The palate is medium-bodied with an aniseed tinged entry, light tannins, rather worked with a simple, bretty finish. I don't quite get this wine - it just feels lackluster. Pleasurable but I need to see more complexity evolve on the finish. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 red tasting.
A deep if slightly sombre crimson. Not a lot of bouquet to start with. Quite a sweet plump fruit, with new oak adding the cream, but seems at first to lacks a little density for grand cru, though perhaps it is more a question of the refinement of the style. Drouhin’s Clos Vougeot probably just needs time, as more fruit emerges with extended aeration.
Drouhin's 2018 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru is showing very well, unwinding in the glass with aromas of cassis, plums, dark chocolate, incense and petals. Full-bodied, rich and enveloping, it's broad and dramatic, with a concentrated core of fruit, succulent acids, and velvety tannins that render it unusually approachable at this early stage.
About the producer
Joseph Drouhin is one of the largest and most famous producers in Burgundy, making both domaine and négociant wines. It remains family-owned and run, now in the hands of the fourth generation.