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IMO, MG makes one of the absolute best Clos Vougeot’s. This one drank very youthful and primary but all the material is there for this to be a fantastic bottle down the road. It showed much more producer and vineyard than it did the vintage. There was none of the overt greenness that you can often get with 2011’s. Along with Rousseau, Dujac and Tremblay, MG’s 2011’s are very impressive.
After an initial shyness it does reveal itself after a multi hour decant and begins to waft from the glass with aromas of dark fruit, florals and spices. On the palate it’s deep, elegant and pure with fine grained tannins, excellent focus and delineation. But you can tell it wishes to resume its slumber. It often went back and forth from showing great fruit expression to then aromas of woodsmoke and savory herbs. But the herbal qualities are not at all off putting and just add to complexity. I would love to check in on this again with more bottle age. It is clear that it will have a lot to offer those with more patience than me.
IMO, MG makes one of the absolute best Clos Vougeot’s. This one drank very youthful and primary but all the material is there for this to be a fantastic bottle down the road. It showed much more producer and vineyard than it did the vintage. There was none of the overt greenness that you can often get with 2011’s. Along with Rousseau, Dujac and Tremblay, MG’s 2011’s are very impressive.
After an initial shyness it does reveal itself after a multi hour decant and begins to waft from the glass with aromas of dark fruit, florals and spices. On the palate it’s deep, elegant and pure with fine grained tannins, excellent focus and delineation. But you can tell it wishes to resume its slumber. It often went back and forth from showing great fruit expression to then aromas of woodsmoke and savory herbs. But the herbal qualities are not at all off putting and just add to complexity. I would love to check in on this again with more bottle age. It is clear that it will have a lot to offer those with more patience than me.
Original Georges but the classification ain’t here yet. A very intense, roiling nose of dark red and blue fruit. Dense with forest floor, sour plummy notes. A bloody purity to the fruit. Crazy intense for a 30 year old wine. Tannins resolved. Quite masculine and brawny with pretty notes on the edges. Really memorable. The most intense and concentrated Vougeot I’ve tried. Incredible.
Original Georges but the classification ain’t here yet. A very intense, roiling nose of dark red and blue fruit. Dense with forest floor, sour plummy notes. A bloody purity to the fruit. Crazy intense for a 30 year old wine. Tannins resolved. Quite masculine and brawny with pretty notes on the edges. Really memorable. The most intense and concentrated Vougeot I’ve tried. Incredible.
How to get over your Vougeot and ‘03 phobias in one bottle. Masterful—exotic red fruit, spice and wood embers, harnesses the ripeness of the vintage without being overwhelmed by it. Case in point—at the end of the day it’s always about who made the wine.
How to get over your Vougeot and ‘03 phobias in one bottle. Masterful—exotic red fruit, spice and wood embers, harnesses the ripeness of the vintage without being overwhelmed by it. Case in point—at the end of the day it’s always about who made the wine.
Vougeot, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, France
