BOURGOGNE ROUGE
2020 Domaine Anne Gros
Inky dark colour - amazing for this producer. Terrific concentration and quite saline in its freshness, tight fine tannins - its a delight, with amazing length too. Drinking range: 2024 - 2033L&S (Nov 2021)
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There is a touch of menthol on the slightly riper nose of plum liqueur and kirsch nuances. The exceptionally rich and solidly concentrated medium-bodied flavors possess more evident rusticity on the robust bitter cherry pit-inflected finish. This is also quite good though fashioned in a more muscular and more structured style. Drinking range: 2025 - Rating: 86-89 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2022)
Fifty-year-old vines, 40 hl/ha. Tank sample. Bright mid ruby. Elegant, red-fruited and soft, enveloping tannins. Drinking range: 2023 - 2028 Rating: 16 Matthew Hayes, www.jancisrobinson.com (Jan 2022)
Four plots make up 0.95ha. “I don’t know where to place this in the line up because it is more like a 1er cru” says Anne, and it is certainly a big step up from the Hautes Côtes de Nuits. Deep black with a purple rim. Super concentrated, I like the fruit on the nose, which is followed by significant power on the palate, while the oak will need to be tamed by time. Tasted: November 2021 Rating: 86-88 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy (Jan 2022)
The 2020 Bourgogne Rouge is quite deep in colour. Quite intense on the nose, this veers more towards black fruit than red. The palate is sweet and ripe on the entry with black plum and cranberry fruit, slightly savory in style with a harmonious finish. Good substance here, a gutsy Bourgogne Rouge. Drinking range: 2023 - 2028 Rating: 86-88 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Dec 2021)
Domaine Anne Gros
Anne Gros joined her father François at the family domaine in Vosne Romanée in 1988, having given up her arts studies in favour of viticulture and oenology at Beaune and Dijon, and has run the domaine alone since 1995. The Domaine now has 6.5 hectares of Pinot and Chardonnay. Anne describes herself as being 'wary of certainties and keen to preserve her freedom'.
In the vineyards Anne practises viticulture influenced by organic and biodynamic principles, and the vineyards are ploughed and fertilised with compost, but although she believes that the long-term health of the vineyards are best preserved by such methods, she likes to maintain the freedom to use conventional treatments when necessary.
In the cellar, the wines are classically made, in cement tanks for the reds, and stainless steel for the whites. They are then are aged in barrel for up to fifteen months, with 80% new wood for the grand crus, 50% for the village wines and 30% for the regional wines. Anne is quietly meticulous and almost obsessive about cleanliness in her cellar, which perhaps is reflected in the delicacy and restrained tension in her wines, which have aromatic clarity, limpid precision, sheer joie de vivre, lively balance and persistence.
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