2016 Domaine Drouhin-Laroze Clos Vougeot

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  5/19/2023 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points

  13x Pinot Greatness: Tasted double blind. I’m a bit puzzled by the wine, on one hand, it definitely seemed too early as it showed muted. On the other hand I guessed it too be much older with some tertiary notes already there. Will it age probebrly? 92/93pts.
  
  TN: The nose is muted with some dark berry notes and some tertiary notes shining through. On the palate this is dense, dark and muscular. Quite intese but mostly just ripe dark fruit and some minerality. With time better, more open with some toasty notes adding to the complexity but overall it remained a bit muted and with still quite a muscular structure.
  
  Decanting: My guess is that this needs at least 2-3 hours in the decanter.

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  4/30/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  During a Pinot blind tasting dinner. Aromatic nose of dark fruit with some raspberry as well. Competent palate as well with good fruit and acidity. Felt primary still may be amplified by some residual CO2. Nice earthy finish. Young, this may well add a point once mature. Best after 2028.

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  2/28/2023 - whits Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Needs more time for the oak to integrate but a really nice wine, it is a youthful opaque purple in the glass, the nose shows cola, cherry skins and raspberry paste, full bodied and extravagant, shows off oak, structured tannin, flavors of plum, oriental spice and earthy fungi, very much set for aging, not going to show true personality until another 3 to 5 years, I recommend a hold right now

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  3/19/2021 - Texas Batard Likes this wine: 95 Points

  True to my own practice, I absolutely refuse to lay down wine like this for years and years. Decanted 2 hours before serving. On the nose notes dark cherry and eucalyptus, and the signature earth of French Burgundy. I tasted a bit right after decanting and would have been happy serving it then. 2 hours later ... wow! I'm always proud to serve Clos De Vougeot and this Domaine Drouhin-Laroze is a worthy addition to my cellar. Served with mushroom and goat cheese ravioli's, and a side of a pesto/basil cherry tomato salad. Brilliant. The tannins are well integrated in my humble opinion, complex, multi-layered taste of dark fruit, menthol, cassis, red licorice. One of the highlights of my cellar sampling this year.

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  5/5/2019 - Fractalage wrote:

  Bound up tight so as to not deliver any nose.
  Palate displayed similar youth, but showed fantastic promise. Lots going on with dancing display of spice, mushrooms, dirt, cherries and sparkle tannins.
  By sparkle tannins I mean that there were like thousands of tiny stars shooting off in my mouth as the juice coated my mouth. Sorta magical.
  Its finish was very long.

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