2020 VOSNE ROMANÉE Les Violettes Domaine Christian Clerget

Grapes	Pinot Noir	Colour	Red
Origin	France, Burgundy	Other	Certified Organic
District	Côte d'Or	Sub-district	Côte de Nuits
Village	Vosne Romanée	ABV	13%

Grapes	Pinot Noir
Colour	Red
Origin	France, Burgundy
Other	Certified Organic
District	Côte d'Or
Sub-district	Côte de Nuits
Village	Vosne Romanée
ABV	13%

Planted in 1948. A large proportion of the original plants remain, so yields are extremely low. Relaxed and creamy texture, the fruits is fine, with building intensity. While it's not super-expressive for now, (Justine remarks that this is a very different tasting to even a couple of weeks earlier - the wines are already closing down for winter), this is fine and intense once again with a slightly broadening of the flavours on the finish. L&S (Nov 2021)

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(from .50 ha parcel planted in 1946; Les Violettes abuts Clos de Vougeot). This is the first wine to display any appreciable reduction and it’s enough to blur the nuance of what are clearly ripe dark berry aromas. Otherwise, there is very good vibrancy and cut to the delicious medium weight flavors that possess solid mid-palate density before culminating in a rustic, powerful and impressively long and complex finish. Like the Aux Croix, this isn’t refined but it is balanced all the same. This is one to look for if you have the patience. Drinking range: 2027 - Rating: 89-92 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2022)

Dark fresh purple, plenty of energy here. A minor reduction but nothing to worry about. A beautiful swelling fruit on the palate, succulent but not lush nor unduly ripe, fresher at the finish, the whole bunches doing their thing. Around one third whole bunch. The right thickness of texture, obviously concentrated but not exaggerated. Tasted: December 2021 Rating: 91-93 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy (Jan 2022)

Domaine Christian Clerget

A domaine of 6 hectares, with 8 appellations, run by Christian, Isabelle and their daughter Justine Clerget from their house in the northern end of the little village of Vougeot, which is really in the commune of Chambolle. They have been organic (certified) since 2017, Justine having insisted on it when she joined them, but it sounds as though she was pushing at an open door, because Christian is entirely committed to this approach and clearly believes that good wine starts with the vines.

At harvest the grapes are picked into small cases for the short trip to the winery which really is right in the middle of their holdings. They adapt to the vintage conditions, so that they did 2 pigeages in total in 2019, whereas in 2017, they did one a day throughout the fermentation. In 2018 they did some whole bunch fermentation, but reverted to their normal complete destemming in 2019. At the end of the alcoholic fermentation Christian decants into tank, allows the wine to settle for ten days, then puts the wines into barrel where they stay without racking until bottling. They are using about 30% new wood on the villages and 40% on the Chambolle Charmes and the Échézeaux, and the wines say in barrel for a long élevage of 18-20 months.

Bourgogne Rouge .69ha

Morey Saint Denis Blanc 'les Crais'

Morey Saint Denis 0.20 ha

Chambolle Musigny 2 ha (in Les Athets, Les Babillères, Les Herbues, Les Nazoires, Les Bussières, Les Croix, Les Condemennes)

Vosne Romanée les Violettes 0.37 ha

Vougeot 1er Cru les Petits Vougeots 0.46 ha

Chambolle Musigny 1er cru les Charmes 1.01 ha

Échézeaux Grand Cru 1.09 ha (in 'en Orveaux')

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