2011 Clos Vougeot
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Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. Quite deep in color, Michel Gros’s Clos de Vougeot Grand Maupertui has a herbaceous but not vegetal bouquet with assiduous use of stems that lends freshness and vigor. Tertiary and cigar-box tones dominate the aromatics, but with time those broody red and black fruit begin to emerge. The palate is medium-bodied with svelte tannins, well-judged acidity and a harmonious, quite silky finish that is showing just a little too much toasty oak at the moment. Give this Clos de Vougeot another year in bottle.
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Neal Martin
Jancis Robinson MW
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Quite dense ruby. Lip smacking and flavoursome on the nose. Quite sharp acidity but good fruit intensity in the morello-cherry/damson spectrum. Very much unformed but it should get there. Even if not the most concentrated of the lot. (JR)
Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. Quite deep in color, Michel Gros’s Clos de Vougeot Grand Maupertui has a herbaceous but not vegetal bouquet with assiduous use of stems that lends freshness and vigor. Tertiary and cigar-box tones dominate the aromatics, but with time those broody red and black fruit begin to emerge. The palate is medium-bodied with svelte tannins, well-judged acidity and a harmonious, quite silky finish that is showing just a little too much toasty oak at the moment. Give this Clos de Vougeot another year in bottle. Nov 2014, www.robertparker.com
About the producer
The first vintage of Domaine Michel Gros – one of the many Gros family estates in Burgundy – was 1979. The property has several prized vineyards including its monopole Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru, Clos des Réas.