2015 Maison Albert Bichot Clos Vougeot Domaine du Clos Frantin

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  4/6/2024 - Kavine wrote: 91 Points

  Opened up as the night evolved. Paired with a Cantonese dinner at Mott. Blended nicely. Little minerals lingering vs my preference for more roundness and fruit.

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  2/29/2020 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  From plots covering parts from all around Clos Vougeaot: the lower parts, the middle section and the higher parts. Macerated with the skins for 20-28 days. Aged for 14-18 months in oak pièces (60% new). 14% alcohol.
  
  Youthful, moderately translucent raspberry red color with a thin, almost colorless rim. Very ripe and rather sweetish nose with big, lush aromas of fresh cherries, concentrated strawberry-driven red fruit, some toasty oak spice, a little bit of boysenberries, light cocoa tones and a peppery hint of spicy Pinosity. The wine is medium-bodied, broad-shouldered and very intense on the palate with noticeably ripe flavors of juicy red cherries and wild strawberries, some tart red plums, a little bit of sour cherry bitterness, light sweet notes of toasty oak spice, crunchy hints of redcurrants and cranberries and a touch of stony minerality. The overall feel is rather muscular and even quite tightly-knit with the high acidity and moderately grippy, structured tannins. The finish is rather grippy and stern with long and quite intense flavors of raspberries, sour cherry bitterness, some crunchy redcurrants and lingonberries, light stony mineral tones, a little bit of cocoa oak, a hint of wild strawberries and a touch of alcohol warmth.
  
  A very big and impressive Grand Cru Burgundy, but also one that feels a bit too ripe, polished and oaky for my taste. The wine shows wonderful intensity and impressive sense of structure, but the overall feel is rather heavy on oak and the fruit shows so much ripeness that there is a somewhat Rhône-ish undertone to the fresh Pinosity. The high alcohol really doesn't help one bit at this. I guess with age the oak can integrate with the fruit, but most likely no amount of aging is capable of hiding the pronounced ripeness and high alcohol. This is in its own way quite attractive for the style and surprisingly crunchy for the obvious ripeness, but ultimately not up my alley.

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  3/1/2018 - jmcmchi Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I could live with this...but not at the price
  
  Lovely nose, soft, smooth classic Burgundy, balance and finesse...but the $$$

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  1/9/2017 - rossi.wine wrote: 93 Points

  More structured than Echezeaux tasted before. Nice minerality, less ripe and sweet, more spicy on the nose. On the palate powerful and grippy. Good fruit, ripe tannins, but more serious and restrained. Long. 92-93+

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