This is really cellar-worthy. Dense purple in colour, it offers a nose of cedar, blackberry and toasted herbs. Full-bodied on the palate with dry, savoury, blackberry flavour, firmly structured with an earthy finish.
Dense purple colour with a herbal nose redolent of black fruits and lavender. Full-bodied, dry and savoury on the palate; a firm tannic structure with a liquorice note on the finish.
A tighter example of Pinot, but slowly revealing notes of cherry, underbrush, spice and oak stylings in a finessed style on the nose. It’s well balanced and persistent in the mouth with pure red fruits, lavish spice notes and acidity all harmonious through the finish.
A nose of underbrush, truffles, cedar, cherry, small black berries and spice. Very elegant Pinot Noir, considering the hot vintage; silky on the palate with meaty-earthy red fruits and plush tannins.
A gorgeous wine with a nose of stone fruits, melon, pears, citrus and vivid stony minerality. It shows fruit intensity on the palate with a fine bead of flinty minerality, all balanced out by racy acidity. Just add oysters.
The 2009 vintage in Chablis, and Burgundy in general, was warm and produced wines that can be described as opulent, ripe and round with far richer fruits then consumers are used to. The Les Clos, however, is heavenly. A rich style with amplified stone fruits, slate and minerals on the nose and following to the palate. It is a limestone bomb, a beautiful thing.
A knockout with ripe yet finessed bramble, earth, spice, blueberry-raspberry fruits, cloves and cigar-box cedar aromas. It is layered in the mouth with rich, complex and highly extracted black and red fruits followed by lavish spices and silky tannins through the finish. A virtuoso Pinot performance.