CLOS DE VOUGEOT
2020 Le Grand Maupertui Grand Cru Domaine Anne Gros
| Grapes | Pinot Noir |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| District | Côte d'Or |
| Sub-district | Côte de Nuits |
| Village | Vougeot |
| Classification | Grand Cru |
| ABV | 13% |
| Vineyard | Clos de Vougeot |
Intense - the concentration is something else. You can see why they serve this last. With its feisty wild fruit and slightly stroppy texture it's much more of a fighter than the gentle harmony of the the other Grands Crus - but it's great stuff ! Drinking range: 2030 - 2040 L&S (Dec 2021)
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Anne is very pleased at how well her old vines here resist the recent years' dry growing seasons. in 2020, they gave her a very good 30 hl/ha. From the first whiff, the wine has pedigree: starting with minerals and forest floor, the wine moves into grilled toast then floral top notes with summer pudding fruits. There's refreshing zip and lightly drying tannins to give the wine solid aging potential. Drinking range: 2024 - 2034 Rating: 95 Christy Canterbury MW - TimAtkin.com (Feb 2022)
(from a .93 ha parcel). Here too the ripe nose is attractively spicy though with more earth influence on the nicely fresh aromas of various dark berries, plum and cassis. The relatively supple middle weight flavors possess good vibrancy though the dusty finish is borderline drying. Like the Barreaux, this may well be due to the abundant gas though here it’s less obvious that is the potential problem. Drinking range: 2035 - Rating: 90-92 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2022)
Situated next to the Échezeaux vineyard, and above the Grands Échezeaux. From a plot of 94 ares. 84-year-old vines, with a propensity to millerandage. Julie Gros explains their vines show remarkable depth and consistency, year in, year out. Tank sample. Admirable fruit and depth; spice and dark-red fruit; quite a tannic charge on the finish. A good example from this heterogenous grand cru. Drinking range: 2028 - 2040 Rating: 17.5 Matthew Hayes, www.jancisrobinson.com (Jan 2022)
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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