Vanessa

9.3

Happy Bastille Day!  Joyeux 14 juillet! 🇫🇷

A great day to sip something fabulous and French, like this 2020 Maison Joseph Drouhin Clos des Mouches. 🍷

Maison Joseph Drouhin is a dynamic, family-run estate, established by Joseph Drouhin in 1880 in the Beaune region of Burgundy.  It’s now run by Joseph’s four great-grandchildren – Philippe, Véronique, Laurent, and Frédéric – with operations spanning from Burgundy to the Dundee Hills of Willamette Valley, Oregon (Domaine Drouhin). 🫶🏻🫶🏻

This wine has a medium ruby hue and an array of aromas and flavors such as strawberry, raspberry, cherry (red and black), mulberry, rose, spice, potpourri, black licorice, forest floor, toast, vanilla bean, crème brûlée, nutmeg, star anise, cardamom, and clove.

It aged 14-18 months in French oak (25% new), lending those baking spice, vanilla, and confectionery notes.

On the palate, it is dry, with vibrant acidity, creating tension, and a medium (+) body, with warming alcohol (14% ABV), medium tannins that are polished and velveteen, and a lingering finish.

This is an outstanding wine capable of long-term aging with potential to gain complexity unveiling additional tertiary dimensions over time. 🕰️ — 12 days ago

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Russ Kujan

9.1

2019 vintage — a month ago

Ian Hamel

9.1

2024 June. Maybe it’s due to the hotter weather, but recently this has felt darker and more primary to me - still lovely though — 12 days ago

Catherine Fox

9.0

Chuck likes this. Full bodied and fruity. — 16 days ago

Byron Hewett

9.8

WOTN. Complete. Beautiful balance, complexity and harmony. — a month ago

GaryWEdwards

9.3

Delicate elegance just beginning an early drinking window. Nice cherry hints with little wood present — a month ago

romo

9.2

Improved with air, middle-aged blues. — 2 days ago

GaryWEdwards

9.5

Wow! Beautiful structure that has apparently developed over the past decade to present an elegant wine. Not a great vintage but time has served the wine, of nice depth, well. 1993 vintage — 6 days ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.0

Quite yellow , light gold colour . Quite generous and round , with smoky yellow fruits, peach and apricot , lemon rind , still really intact and fruit driven . Good fresh acidity and backbone on the generous palate , decent toasty , slightly buttery finish . I was pleased and surprised by this showing . At peak now , best over the next few years — a month ago

Nagib Nasr

8.9

Very nice — a month ago