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Domaine de la Vougeraie Reviews

Score: 88 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
New oak weaves into the fruit of this wine to create a single line of flavor, carrying through to a salty-sweet finish. Seemingly New World in style, this may gain more expression as it ages.
Score: 88 | March 1, 2013 | Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
Medium red. Slightly reduced aromas of candied raspberry, coffee and menthol accented by peppery herbs and spices. Leanish, slightly raw wine with juicy red berry and spice flavors framed by sound balancing acidity. Offers modest complexity and depth. Peppery herbs dust the finish, which displays subtle fruit and good energy. Not bad.
Score: Gold Medal | March 1, 2013 | International Wine Challenge
Score: Gold | October 1, 2012 | Decanter
A fine bouquet of perfectly ripe fruit with a red berry character extends to a complex and aromatic palate, with finesse and great length.
Score: Gold | October 1, 2012 | Decanter
Toasty, savoury aromas on a plush, modern style with slightly smoky, ripe strawberry and black cherry fruit layered over its terroir character. Generous and satisfying.
Score: 87-89 | June 1, 2012 | Burghound
A background note of pain grillé adds to the breadth of the pretty and very fresh aromas of pear, apple and various white flowers. There is equally good freshness to the racy and lightly mineral-inflected flavors that possess plenty of energy on the balanced, agreeably dry and delicious finish.
Score: 88 | June 1, 2012 | Burghound
A mildly exotic nose speaks of mostly dried yellow fruit that is trimmed in citrus zest and melon notes. The forward, round and quite supple flavors are already delicious and approachable with reasonably good depth and length. This easy-to-like effort is already drinking well.
Score: 88+ | February 1, 2012 | The Wine Advocate
The 2010 Beaune Greves impresses for its textural depth, richness and overall complexity. There is plenty of volume in the fruit in the style of the vintage, but with plenty of underlying minerality. All in all, this is a terrific Greves well worth considering. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2022.
Score: 87 | January 10, 2012 | Burghound
Outstanding Top Value. Vincent indicated that this contains about 40% declassified villages level Beaune. An exceptionally fresh, cool and admirably pure red berry fruit nose with earth nuances introduces delicious and relatively refined flavors that offer good length. The supporting tannins display only mild rusticity and this is really quite good for its level as the presence of the upper level juice is apparent.
Score: 88 | January 10, 2012 | Burghound
". This is also wonderfully fresh with a restrained and airy nose of red pinot fruit. There is lovely detail to the energetic, crisp and well-detailed flavors that possess plenty of personality as well as fine length. This isn't overly complex but it's refreshing and satisfying in its fashion.