2009 Vosne Romanee Les Suchots
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Good deep, bright red. Captivating aromas of strawberry, cola and strong smoky minerality. Tactile, saline and concentrated, delivering strong soil tones and chewy minerality. Fairly broad and full in the mouth but not at all heavy. Finishes very long, savory and youthfully tight, with serious but ripe tannins and palate-dusting minerality. This wine improved for four days in the recorked bottle, with its sweetness of fruit building.
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David Schildknecht, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The 2009 Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots is a deep, powerful wine, with layers of fruit that wrap 76 around the firm tannins. This shows the muscular, broad-shouldered side of Vosne in its powerful, intense personality.
The 2009 Vosne-Romanee Les Suchots is a deep, powerful wine, with layers of fruit that wrap around the firm tannins. This shows the muscular, broad-shouldered side of Vosne in its powerful, intense personality. Anticipated maturity: 2019-2029. These wines from proprietor Mounir Saouma are impressive. Saouma sources small lots of wine from the best sites in Burgundy and does all of the post-alcoholic fermentation elevage in his cellar in Beaune. Saouma’s approach calls for long, slow malos, extended contact on the gross lees and no fining or filtration prior to bottling. Saouma bottles an eye-popping 60 different wines, some sourced from more than one grower. Count me as a fervent believer in terroir. As much as I subscribe to the belief that specific plots of land can confer unique qualities to wines, the reality is that a variety of other factors are just as important, including the talent of the winemaker and the ambient qualities of the cellars in which wines are raised. What amazes me most about these wines – aside from the obviously very high quality – is that there is without question a distinctive house style that emerges across the range, despite the fact that they come from different sources and are acquired as wine rather than fruit. Saouma likes to describe his cellar as a library of Burgundy’s finest terroirs. That’s as good a description as any for these uniformly outstanding, compelling wines. Importer: Vintus LLC, Pleasantville, NY; tel. (914) 769-3000, Atherton Imports, Menlo Park, CA; tel. (650) 328-6639
Deep, bright red. Wild, reduced aromas of cassis and bitter chocolate. Densely packed and powerfully structured, with chewy, slightly medicinal dark fruit flavors. This needs more elevage to develop its perfume. A classically dry, soil-driven wine that's long on the aftertaste but hard to assess today. May be better than my range suggests.