CLOS VOUGEOT
2018 Grand Cru Henri Boillot
| Grapes | Pinot Noir |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| District | Côte d'Or |
| Sub-district | Côte de Nuits |
| Village | Vougeot |
| Classification | Grand Cru |
| ABV | 14% |
| Vineyard | Clos Vougeot |
Concentrated and classy. Super fruit density, but at the same time a lift, a little edge of taut wild berry complexity, and a brambly feel of little black berries. Pure, balanced, fine. L&S (Oct 2019)
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The 2018 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru offers crunchy blackcurrant and raspberry fruit on the nose, crisp with a subtle pressed flower element. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly furry tannins. Modest weight, a modicum of bitterness, though it just misses a little follow-through on the briny aftertaste. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 red tasting. Drinking range: 2025 - 2045 Rating: 91 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Nov 2022)
(from a ~.34 ha parcel in Grand Maupertuis). This plays right on the edge of volatile acidity with its nose of poached plum, black raspberry and warm earth. The middle weight flavors are not especially dense but do possess a highly attractive mouthfeel while displaying good power on the bitter cherry pit-inflected finish. This moderately firm effort is somewhat awkward at present, but I suspect that it will recover with age. Drinking range: 2033 - Rating: 92 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Apr 2020)
The 2018 Clos Vougeot Grand Cru is showing very well, soaring from the glass with aromas of wild berries, rose petals, violets, orange rind and dark chocolate. On the palate, it's full-bodied, concentrated and muscular, with lively acids and a powdery but elegantly refined chassis of structuring tannins, concluding with a long and resonant finish. Drinking range: 2028 - 2055 Rating: 94 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Jan 2020)
Domaine Henri Boillot
A domaine which dates to 1885, but which began properly in the early years of the 20th century under the current Henri's grandfather (also Henri). His son, Jean, was the one who really developed it. Henri arrived in 1975 and worked his way up, becoming the winemaker. In 2000 he began the building of the new winery at the bottom of Meursault, and he then bought out his brother and sister to keep the domaine as one, renaming it from 'Domaine Jean Boillot' to 'Domaine Henri Boillot' to avoid confusion with his brother Jean-Marc's domaine.
The Domaine totals around 14 hectares, with roughly equal surfaces of red and white, and of which just under 4ha is the Monopole vineyard of Clos de la Mouchère, a walled enclave within the premier Cru Puligny Perrières. The 2017 vintage saw the arrival of two new parcels of Grand Cru red, in Échezeaux and Latricières Chambertin
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