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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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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.
Parcel near the folly in the Clos Vougeot. 30% whole bunch (the smallest clusters with the ripest stems are selected). Cask sample. Deep cherry red. Smells much fresher than the Clos de Bèze. More spicy, some mocha from the oak. Dark fruited and savoury. Thickly textured, a little bit oaky, but should come round to greater elegance. More embryonic than most but very long.
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.