2016 Domaine Michel Gros Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Brûlées

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  8/12/2023 - GuanYu Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Pink-purplish rim, ruby red center with orange tint. Blackcurrant, redcurrant, dark cherry, chocolate, coffee and spices. Still in the youth stage and not much tertiary flavors. Medium high acidity, medium high tannin, and velvet texture. Long finish. Reminiscent of its adjacent neighbor plot Richebourg. This bottle was in a sleep phase and was sort of closed, despite hours of breathing. Best to wait for a few years.

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  11/26/2021 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:

  This was delicious. Young yes but quite tasty and not at all closed or too structured. Lovely nose of ripe red berry fruits, Asian spices, a hint of damp earth, and some orange peel. Good depth and a lovely spicy finish.

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  12/28/2019 - srh Likes this wine:

  Winebar [end of yr Special] + 3 Shared Bottles from 12/27/19 (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): “Area: 0.63 ha; Owner: GFA des ARBAUPINS; This parcel is located next to the GROS family parcel of RICHEBOURG in the N. The draining capacity of the place may explain its name: the natural vegetation would be quickly ‘burned’ during summer because of the dryness of the soil. The soil is very stony, of a 30-35cm thickness, & the subsoil is made of hard limestone (similar to Prémeaux stones).” Typically, “This wine offers a great minerality. It is similar to Richebourg from which it is separated only by a 3m-wide lane. But the soil, which is not as thick as the Richebourg's, brings more softness to the tannins & makes it more rapidly accessible.”
  
  N: Toast slightly atop blk, poss red, rasps with undertones of spice & flowers, poss minerals? Intensity lurking
  
  P: Med, poss LM, body; Rndish entry with NICE, ALMOST swtish frt fairly quickly met by an astringent pucker as it fairly seamlessly transitions into a LONG, very, VERY slightly puckerish finish with hints of pending swtness to the very, VERY fine tannins. NEEDS through '22, I'm guessing, then drinking through its 10th... easily. 13.0% ABV; My EXC, more with time? 90-93 Burghound (1/15/18), 88-90 WA (Martin, 12/29/17), and 16.5+ (2x) Harding & Jancis Robinson (both 1/5/18). [This vendor's $132.95 puts it @ the top of the bottom 1/2 of wine-searcher's postings.]

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  12/12/2019 - Stanrocks Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Needs air probably, from the memory of last bottle the wine was a lot less showing, yet it is still nice, red berries and a bit of oak, the palate lacks the punchy juicyness of the previous wines from M Gros, still very smooth and powerful at the same time... Vosne quite on the powerful side or « Syrah » like, some thought it was a northern Rhone... funny with the sock and blind

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  8/4/2019 - Frijole wrote:

  dark burgundy red, medium clarity, silvery hue
  Nose: raspberry, swine, mushroom, wet earth, bay leaf, cigar, tobacco, herbs, oak
  Pal: raspberry, swine, mushrooms, wet earth, bay leaf, cigar, tobacco, clove, minerals, cola, touch smoke, oak, some complexity
  Feel: medium, minerally, acidic
  Finish: medium, long
  T9

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