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Domaine de la Vougeraie Reviews

Score: 93 | November 29, 2014 | Wine Advocate

Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. Lighter in color, there are plenty of pretty, demure red berry fruits on the nose of the Bonnes-Mares 2011 from Domaine de la Vougeraie: very pure and translating the essence of Pinoté, albeit not the kind of aromatics for someone seeking opulence. The palate is medium-bodied with very well-judged acidity. This just glides across the palate and down the throat in effortless fashion. Bon vin.

Score: 90 | April 1, 2014 | Wine & Spirits
This has the earthern cool of cave, its bright red cherry flavors shaded toward dark rose and smoky tannins. Quiet rather than flash, this has enough flavor concentration and spicy tannins to develop over the next several years.
Score: 90 | April 1, 2014 | Wine & Spirits
Intense and powerful, but as yet unformed, this starts with fruity layers of black cherry skin then hits a wall of tannins. Heady in its peppery scents and closed off behind those tannins, this is formidable, if difficult to read as young wine. For the cellar.
Score: 90 | April 1, 2014 | Wine & Spirits
Year's Best White Burgundy. A formal, old-fashioned style of Burgundy, this wine's oak age contributes the scent of hazelnut butter. It's oxidative, with umami mushroom notes and mouthwatering acidity. The flavors will meld with roast salmon.
Score: 90 | April 1, 2014 | Wine & Spirits
Best Buy. An ornate, red-fruikted Nuits, this starts out with the dark, barrel spice of oak and brightens into layers of fruit and earthy scents in the finish. Juicy, tight and youhtfully blunt, this will gain from several years in the cellar.
Score: 92 | April 1, 2014 | Wine & Spirits
Black and sleek with the dark-roast coffee scent of expensive oak, this wine's graceful fruit and incipient complexity is overtaken up front by that smokiness. But it's the strawberry essence that lasts in the finish, warm and powerful, ready to go the distance in the cellar.
Score: 92 | April 1, 2014 | Wine & Spirits
More challenging that the Clos de Prieure, Le Clos Blanc offers so much heady complexity and gripping power that it feels gruff, needing a day for its tannic leesiness to mellow into savory scents. It tastes like a spcie box explosion, a grand wine that will be more approachable with ten years of bottle age. White grapes have grown at this 5.63-acre vineyard since 1100, currently 95 percent chardonnay, four percent pinot gris, and one percent pinot blanc, farmed under biodynamics since 2001. The vines are adjacent to the Chateau du Vougeot, neighboring Musigny and Les Amoureuses across the northern wall in Chambolle.
Score: 92 | April 1, 2014 | Wine & Spirits
This two-acre walled vineyard once belonged to the Benedictine priory of the abbey of St-Germain-des-Pres in Paris. The chardonnay vines face east, were they border the Vouge stream, growing in calccareous soil with a lot of pebbles. The wine itself is all about minerals, its powerful density following a gracious, simple line. Deep and satisfyingly rich, its gravitas is lightened by scents of spice and flowers.
Score: 87-90 | January 14, 2013 | Burghound
A beautifully perfumed nose of very pretty red currant, pinot, spice and subtle floral scents serve as an elegant intro to the mouth coating middle weight flavors that display a hint of minerality on the delicious and lingering finish where a trace of wood is in evidence. This is nicely balanced if only moderately complex though there is enough underlying material that it may very well succeed in adding depth with time in bottle.
Score: 88-90 | January 14, 2013 | Burghound
A deft but not invisible touch of wood sets off fresh aromas of red and blue berry fruit aromas, kirsch, humus and plenty of forest floor nuances. The fleshy and round, even succulent middle weight flavors exude a fine minerality on the mouth coating finish that while delicious lacks the same sense of vibrancy and refreshing acidity.
Score: 88-91 | January 14, 2013 | Burghound
An airy, floral and very spicy array of both red and blue pinot fruit, earth and a hint of the sauvage introduces mineral-tinged middle weight flavors that also possess fine mid-palate concentration before terminating in a dusty, serious and firm finish. This is blessed with ripe tannins and enough underlying material to suggest that 7 to 9 years of cellar time should be amply rewarded.
Score: 89-91 | January 14, 2013 | Burghound
Outstanding. A really lovely and intensely floral nose offers up notes of lilac, violet and rose petal along with pretty red pinot fruit and subtle earth scents. There is good body and mid-palate density to the rich, round and utterly delicious flavors that possess excellent complexity on the mildly rustic and persistent finish where a touch of wood surfaces. This is a very fine villages and worth a look.
Score: 89-92 | January 14, 2013 | Burghound
Outstanding. This is exceptionally fresh, cool and restrained with an absolutely lovely mélange of various red berry fruit aromas that are liberally laced with mineral and sauvage hints. There is good richness but also fine precision to the mineral-driven, delicious and impressively complex flavors that possess plenty of verve and first-rate persistence for a villages level wine. This is stunningly good for what it is and highly recommended.
Score: 90-93 | January 14, 2013 | Burghound
Outstanding. Here the wood treatment is more obvious though still relatively modest as it allows the ripe, earth and appealingly spicy red currant, plum, violet and rose petal aromas to shine. I very much like the mouth feel of the distinctly mineral-tinged medium-bodied flavors that possess outstanding complexity while concluding in a tension-filled and impressively persistent finish. The balance of structural elements is perfect and this should age effortlessly for up to a decade.
Score: 91-93 | January 14, 2013 | Burghound
A wonderfully fresh nose of ripe red currant, rose petal, wet stone and pungent earth scents precedes round, fleshy and well-concentrated middle weight flavors that possess first-rate intensity on the gorgeously persistent, dusty and mouth coating finish. This is also very well proportioned and should amply reward 10 to 12 years of bottle age. Recommended.
Score: 91-94 | January 14, 2013 | Burghound
An adroit application of wood frames a strikingly broad ranging nose that features notes of violet, lilac, game, earth, smoke, spice, red currant, cassis and blue berry. The rich, intense and tautly muscular broad-scaled flavors display focused power and plenty of punch though there is less rusticity than is typical thanks to the relatively fine grain of the supporting tannins on the driving finish. This is excellent though note that it will require longer-term cellaring.