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Tasting Notes
The '08 Richebourg is blessed with the most complex and most complete nose that features a wonderfully fresh and spicy aromatic profile that includes red and blue pinot fruit, plum, kirsch and an herbal hint that introduces intense, pure and mineral-driven large-bodied flavors that possess a beautiful sense of relief and tension on the hugely long finish. This should be great in time but it will require plenty of it. Allen Meadows, Burghound, Jan30,2010.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
The Wine Advocate
More reviews and scores
Leading with bright red fruits – raspberry, currant, cherry – along with peat and game, Grivot’s 2008 Richebourg exhibits a severe intensity of berry compote, leather, and roasted game, along with strong – albeit fine-grained – tannin and a sense of crushed stone suffusion. This grips implacably and impressively, but without the detail or refinement I suspect it exhibited before bottling. and Grivot testifies to the tannins having hardened. It needs to be revisited over the coming year for a better notion of its potential. On the other hand, that potential is great enough – surely at least 15 years – and the wine embryonic enough, that it probably needs 6-8 years before really showing what it’s got. David Schildknecht, The Wine Advocate Jun 2010
About the producer
A benchmark name in Vosne-Romanée, Domaine Jean Grivot is one of Burgundy’s most respected estates. They have an impressive array of vineyards, including plots in Grand Cru Clos de Vougeot, Echezeaux and Richebourg.