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2010 Vougeot, Les Cras, 1er Cru, Domaine de la Vougeraie, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - at best
Allen Meadows
90-93/100
Product: 20108020792
2010 Vougeot, Les Cras, 1er Cru, Domaine de la Vougeraie, Burgundy

Description

This vineyard suffered from the cold snap in December 2009 with numerous vines being killed – it has all been since grubbed up for replanting. The 2010 crop is therefore only a tiny quantity, but it is immensely concentrated with silky suave dense dark fruit.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Director

Two recent trends which have been continued here by winemaker Pierre Vincent are a slight reduction in the amount of new oak, which now mostly comes from the local forest of Cîteaux, and a slight increase in the use of stems during vinification. The latter is subtly judged though, as there is very rarely any outright feel of the stems in the bouquet or on the palate. 2010 is a tiny crop here, averaging out at 24 hl/ha across the cellar but the wines are magically concentrated.

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2010
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Full Bodied
Producer Domaine de la Vougeraie

Critics reviews

Allen Meadows 90-93/100
A fresh but brooding nose combines plenty of stone and soil tones with ripe wild red berries and plenty of floral nuances. There is excellent volume to the energetic, intense and overtly muscular medium weight plus flavors that benefit from the presence of plenty of dry extract that buffers the very firm and phenolically mature tannins on the balanced and impressively complex finish. This robust effort is not without a certain refinement and overall, I very much like the depth of character. (allen_meadows - burghound_com.com - January 2012)
Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (Jan 2012)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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