CLOS VOUGEOT

2006 Grand Cru Domaine J. Confuron Cotetidot

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Nuits
Village Vosne Romanée
Classification Grand Cru
Vineyard Clos Vougeot

Real power and class, the fruit stays long a pure even on the finish, sailing unflustered though what is a fairly savage tannic structure. This will need keeping but the fruit will still be there. L&S (Dec 2007)


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Dark red. Very ripe, pure nose offers black cherry, licorice, rose petal and a whiff of prune. A distinctly pliant but penetrating style of Clos Vougeot, with lovely finesse and aromatic lift to its pungent flavors of tangy red fruits, minerals, spices and earth. The tannins are substantial but quite fine, and the finishing flavors build impressively and fill the mouth with perfume. Rating: 91-93 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2008)

A complex, penetrating and serious nose highlights ripe and spicy red and black fruit aromas set off by ample earth aromas where the intense earthiness is also reflected by the rich, full, sweet and powerful flavors that possess outstanding phenolic ripeness on the austere, brooding and altogether serious finish. Fans of the domaine should not fail to note that this is a "buy and forget" cellar candidate and this will require every bit of 15 years to reach full maturity and 20 would not surprise me. 2021+ Rating: 91-94 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2008)

Location, Location. Well Yves admits that his vines are at the bottom of the vineyard, but it is not as bad as it sounds. The vines stretch for 300 yards in rows going up the slope, so only part of the vines are actually at the bottom. (One négoce with quite a large block, make a wine from their bottom vines and call it simply Vougeots.) In the middle of the bottom section the land dips and this part is not so good. Yves vines are not here fortunately. Sweet, ripe aromatics. This tannins seem robust, but they are not helped by a lot of gas. It has an expansive palate with succulent sweet, raspberry fruit, soft acidity, but not quite the definition or matter expected of grand cru. A bit out of focus at the moment. To be looked at again. From 2012Sarah Marsh MW, The Burgundy Briefing (Jan 2008)

Domaine J. Confuron Cotetidot

Vignerons since the seventeenth century, the Confuron family has always selected and propagated vines to ensure that their plant material produces the highest quality, and they even have a clone of Pinot named after them - 'Pinot Confuron'.

The domaine has several Grands Cru vineyards as well as two hectares of the great Vosne Romanée Premier Cru 'Les Suchots'. There are around 12 hectares in all. The vines have never seen chemical weedkillers, and are ploughed and managed organically.

The Confurons have always used whole-bunch fermentation, picking very late, which really is a necessity if the stems are to be properly ripe and not give green flavours to the wine. A bit like the Thévenets with their whites in the Mâconnais, they pick so much later that they can seem to have different vintages to everyone else. Yves thinks that 2007 was their great vintage of the first decade of this millennium, and he'd probably be the only grower in the Côte de Nuits who would say that. Yves also makes the wines at Domaine de Courcelin Pommard, in the same way.

Yves, opinionated and laconical as ever, dismisses those who make pale wines by 'infusion' and says that failing to get the whole bunches properly ripe - and using all the bunch - is failing to get everything the terroir can offer. The wines he makes are dark, richly concentrated, and often hard to taste in their development, but experience shows that they age brilliantly. Defending his decision to pick late, he once said 'you miss the differentiation between vintages' if you don't - making 'cut-and-paste' wines which are the same every year... if you pay for a seat at the opera, you don't want to hear a variety singer'.

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