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Clos de la Roche Vieilles Vignes 2013 75cl

AOC Grand Cru | Côte de Nuits | Burgundy | France
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2013 2017
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97 Robert Parker
The 2013 Clos de la Roche Cuvée Vieilles Vignes, from vines planted in 1905, has an inviting, delineated bouquet with vibrant wild strawberry, raspberry preserve and mineral notes. The palate has great tension – so suave and poised with superb symmetry and an effortless finish that I don’t think the Clos Saint Denis has at the moment. Laurent Ponsot did not disguise his enthusiasm for this Grand Cru and I could understand why.
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Domaine Ponsot
One of the most iconoclastic domaines in all of Burgundy, Domaine Ponsot was run for almost 20 years by the well-spoken, debonair and individualistic - Laurent Ponsot. The domaine was created in 1872 by his great-uncle William Ponsot who was originally from Saint Romain. Highly unusual at the time, from the beginning, they bottled a portion of their own wine but only for their own consumption or for their restaurants (they owned a franchise of Northern Italian station buffets). Laurent was a purist in terms of winemaking; however, he was also not overly keen to explain what he exactly did. Perhaps he wanted to keep it a bit of a secret, but it is also possible that he wanted the wine to speak for itself rather than break it down by a step-by-step analysis of winemaking techniques. A version of its ‘sum is greater than its parts'. In general, he preferred that the fruit spoke for itself. Since 2005, his wines have been on a roll with each vintage hitting a bullseye in that given year. In 2017 Laurent Ponsot quitted the activity and the domaine is nowadays run by his sister Rose-Marie Ponsot with Alexandre Abel.