CLOS VOUGEOT

The 2011 Clos Vougeot is intense and voluptuous to the core. Violets, dried rose petals, hard candy and dark stone fruits fill out the wine's broad-shouldered frame beautifully. Perfumed overtones add an attractive upper register to complement the delineated fruit, but the Clos Vougeot remains a wine built on structure and power. Here, too, the massive tannins are going to require patience. Drinking range: 2021 - 2036 Rating: 93 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Mar 2014)

Good deep red. Black and red fruits, licorice and minerals on the medicinal nose, with pepper and herb accents providing lift. Juicy and densely packed, showing very good ripeness and lift to the blue fruit, spice and earth flavors. There's even an incipient creaminess here, and the tannins are fine and sweet, but this is tightly wound in the early going. Finishes with terrific energy and length. Rating: 93 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2014)

(from a ~.34 ha parcel in Grand Maupertuis). A very ripe nose offers up notes of plum, black pinot fruit, pungent earth and plenty of spice influence. There is a relatively refined mouth feel to the medium weight yet powerful flavors that possess outstanding power and punch on the long, balanced and only moderately austere finish. This will need plenty of cellar time but should very much be worth the wait. 2023+ Rating: 93 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Apr 2013)