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2012 Charmes-Chambertin, Les Mazoyères, Grand Cru, Domaine de la Vougeraie, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Neal Martin MW
93/100
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2012 Charmes-Chambertin, Les Mazoyères, Grand Cru, Domaine de la Vougeraie, Burgundy

Description

A fine powerful purple colour with a lifted and exciting bouquet: fruit dances across the palate, complex and compelling and the stems add a crunchiness to the otherwise seamlessly rich texture. This is a glorious wine from ancient vines.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

This superb domaine grows in reputation and also in size: this year sees the first vintage of Nuits-St Georges, Clos de Thorey. Look out for even further additions in the next two years. Winemaker Pierre Vincent’s style is for lighter colours and very sensual wines and he has done a cracking job again in 2012; a vintage which supported the plentiful use of whole bunch fermentation. The domaine is certified organic and fully biodynamic.

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Alcohol % 13
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Property Domaine de la Vougeraie

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 93/100
Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Charmes Chambertin les Mazoyres Grand Cru from Domaine de la Vougeraie has a glorious bouquet, more Vosne-Romane in style than Gevrey-Chambertin perhaps, with some top quality new wood on the nose that is assiduously entwined with the bright red berry fruit. The palate is very well balanced with sappy red and black fruit. It is more backward than the aromatics at the moment, but the acidity is well judged and there is a sense of backbone and purpose towards the finish. It needs two or three years to fully assimilate the wood, but it will coalesce and eventually turn into a very fine Charmes-Chambertin.Neil Martin - 30/10/2015
Neal Martin MW, (Oct 2015)

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.

Domaine de la Vougeraie

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