2016 Morey St Denis 1er Cru
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The 2016 Morey-Saint-Denis Veilles Vignes 1er Cru, comprising one-third whole bunch fruit, has a perfumed and floral bouquet with copious raspberry, briary and cold stone aromas. There is an engaging brightness to the aromatics here. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, nicely structured with a fine line of salinity. The vivid nature of the nose is translated onto the palate. It finishes in tensile and refreshing fashion. This is an excellent Morey with unerring symmetry. Tasted at the Domaine.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
Altre recensioni e punteggi
(these old vines in Clos des Ormes, Les Faconnières and Les Millandes are situated about 80 meters lower than Les Chaffots): Bright red-ruby. Very ripe, soil-driven aromas of black raspberry, cherry, bitter chocolate and licorice. At once thick and juicy, showing terrific inner-mouth lift to its flavors of dark fruits, licorice and spices. Quite sharply delineated for such a big wine. Finishes classy and very long. A superb showing for this consistently topnotch cuvée .
The 2016 Morey St Denis 1er Cru Vieilles Vignes, which comes from vines planted as far back as the 1930s, suffered a lot of millerandage so that the yields was 25 hectoliters per hectare. It is matured one-third new oak and one-third whole bunch fruit. It has an introspective bouquet at first and then gradually unfolds to reveal enticing blackberry, briary and cold stone scents—all very sophisticated and poised. The palate is medium-bodied with filigree tannin, a disarming sense of symmetry and tension that impart weightlessness that run paradoxically to the intensity of fruit. This is just a magnificent Morey-Saint-Denis. Top of the class in grand cru territory.
Les Faconnières and Les Chenevery, just at the bottom of Clos de la Roche, two-thirds of a hectare, planted between 1936 and 1952. Massal selection. Just 20-25 hl/ha. 33% new oak. Emblematic wine of the domaine. Dark purplish crimson. Very rich and gamey on the nose. Very dense and extremely serious. Easy to see that it’s close to Clos de la Roche (but they acknowledge there are fewer taxes to pay on a premier cru than a grand cru). Very serious. Massive structure. Very ambitious. Bravo! (JR)