Clos Vougeot Grand Cru, Edouard Delaunay, 2021
Clos Vougeot Grand Cru, Edouard Delaunay, 2021
- 75cl
- 13%
- Red Still
- Pinot Noir
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Optimal drinking window: 2029 - 2048
Clos Vougeot is Burgundy's great democratic Grand Cru, fifty hectares split between some eighty owners, each coaxing something different from the same walled slope. Edouard Delaunay, the historic Nuits-Saint-Georges house relaunched with real ambition in 2015, brings a steady, classical hand to its parcel here, favouring precision over power and letting the vineyard do the talking.
The 2021 is a vintage of patience rewarded. A cool, difficult growing season across Burgundy produced wines of real freshness where growers kept their nerve, and this Clos Vougeot shows exactly that restraint: pale ruby, perfumed, built on fine-grained tannin rather than brawn.
What the critics say:
"Two plots for 5 barrels, in the sectors Neuf Journaux and Petit Maupertui, the latter destemmed, the former retaining 50% stems. A little oak on the nose, but there is plenty of dark red fruit waiting to come out, lifted by the stem percentage. Raspberry, strawberry and pepper knit together. The mouth fills out very nicely and while there are tannins behind, they have ripened and just contribute as they should to the structure. Well made and appetising. "
"Although this wine is a bit restrained initially, the deep colour and the firmly tannic and structured texture hint at the longevity of this wine. It is thoroughly ripe, balanced and powerful, and should age well. There were six barrels produced in 2021; grapes came from two parcels: one-third from Petit Maupertuis at the top of the hill behind the chateau, and the balance from a plot between the Château and the Château de la Tour. The grapes from Petit Maupertuis were destemmed; the balance not."
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