2017 Henri Boillot Clos Vougeot

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  12/10/2023 - Pinot Peter Likes this wine:

  Dark red, good acidity, lingering sweetness, dark cherry and dark fruit flavours. There is a viscosity to the body and concentration of flavours. This also exhibits a slight bitterness from the tannins but it disipates as you finish the bottle. Starting to be approachable. This is aging well but needs at least 5 years to integrate all it,s elements and pay dividends for waiting. This wine has been panned by a variety of notable writers as being unbalanced. Will open my next bottle in two years. So far it's looking good.

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  12/1/2021 - csimm wrote: 96 Points

  The more recent vintages of Henri Boillot pinots (currently crafted by Boillot Jr.) really have a strikingly suave as well as a beautifully racy comportment, with a saturating texture and viscosity that is keenly framed in a nice bead of acidity. The spice elements play well with the perfectly ripe red berry fruit. There is Grand Cru intensity that doesn’t overstep the overall cadence of the delivery. This can go the distance, but it is so enticing now (with a bit of air) that it’ll be difficult not to start playing around with these in the nearer term.
  
  This was an interesting contrast to the 2009 Jerome Chezeaux Clos Vougeot, which was stylistically a bit less flashy and showed a lither profile.

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  7/12/2020 - KVM wrote:

  Dark red with purple edge. Oak is most prominent to begin but with time a very pretty fruit perfume shows. Large scale on the palate, no hard edges and with plush fruit. Not in the CdeV stereotype. I like this very much.

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  6/14/2020 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Nose: [57°] Beautiful, pure forest floor with clean deep soil, brooding and pleasant undergrowth, clean tree branches, dark red and black fruits, dark colored flowers, a soft and hidden spice and something I can only describe as medicinal (in a good way but also blows off with time). [64°] The fruits lighten just a touch, showing it's great purity and has a pleasant scent of tea (how??). There was also either a campfire that was put out or some smoked meat that showed earlier but with some time shows up for sure. The earthy, undergrowth grows a bit of depth showing a bit of a nice forest funk.
  
  Palate: [60°] Black and red cherries, pleasant raspberries and cranberries, spiced tree bark, deep dark earth, savory dark minerals like graphite and river rocks. [67°] With some time, gentle steeped tea shows up, tree leaves and the fruits turn dark.
  
  Attributes: Clear, dark medium ruby. Dry with low amounts of slightly chewy tannin. Medium-minus to medium body with medium to medium-plus acidity (seems to give it some weight). Amazing finish of about 26-28 seconds.
  
  Thoughts: I've never had a Burgundy like this before.. this is beautiful, powerful (not in like a Napa sense but in a completely different way in its own class), classy and sophisticated. There is this juiciness and energy that holds throughout the entire time without being overdone.. often times I've experience acidity that's just a bit too much. The other notes seems to take advantage of this good energy (the fruits, earth, minerals, etc.) making it come across very clean and pure. Approachable straight out of the bottle and gets better with air time. This is young as the prickly juiciness and energy indicates (and obviously the vintage) but still very enjoyable (might be personal preference there). This has a great life ahead of it. It's about 3.5 hours in and I don't get that taste of that it's been sitting out at all. This is enjoyable now and can develop easily at least up to a decade. I curse my low capacity wine storage.. if anyone has any recommendations for a wine cellar that can hold about 100-150, please let me know. 97+
  
  Other notes: Burgundy glass. Slow-ox'ed in bottle for the duration of consumption of 4 hours. Don't think you need to air it out here, take your time and enjoy the scenic route!

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  2/11/2020 - csimm wrote: 96 Points

  Similar to the Latricieres-Chambertin with its black cherry and subtly spicy red and black raspberry profile, but just a hair lighter-bodied and medium-weighted...until air kicks in...fanning out and ultimately deepening the core. This becomes more saturated over a couple hours of consumption. Just slightly more reserved than the L-C initially, but then a darker, deeper animal emerges. Finishes youthfully focused, but with a notable balance and weight distribution of fun flavor for such a young wine. Clean and pure. 96++ points (pushing 97 by the end of the night). Air helps put weight on. Hold for another 5+ years.
  
  The L-C is the favorite for now for its more exuberant showing right out of the gate. The Clos Vougeot is a very close second. The Echezeaux is equally as compelling, if but a little tighter and reserved, especially on the back end. All of these three GCs need 5-7 years to really show their ability to deliver complexity and nuance, but they are totally compelling even now. Fun juice!
  
  Update: Even after 24 hours in bottle with no gas, this is still drinking like a champ. Super promising!

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