Tasting Notes
Neal Martin 94
The 2013 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru is a ringer inserted by Frederic Engerer in this Bouchard Pere dinner. Blueberry and blackcurrant intermix on the fresh nose with hints of pencil shavings and red brick. The palate is well defined with supple tannins, quite fresh and sapid with a saline finish that tempts you back for more. This is aging with style and will give another 15 to 20 years of drinking pleasure. Tasted at the "Three" dinner at Bouchard Pere in Beaune.
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2042
Vinous 92+
Deep red with ruby highlights. Riper and blacker but a bit monolithic on the nose and palate. Black cherry and licorice scents lead to dark raspberry and crushed stone in the mouth. Not at all herbal but in a very cool style and tightly wound. This powerful, backward, youthfully uncompromising wine is hard to taste today owing to its firm tannic spine and strong medicinal reserve. Will it ultimately surpass the more sensual Grands-Echezeaux?
Anticipated maturity: 2024-2037
Wine Advocate 90-92
The 2013 Clos Vougeot Grand Cru has a complex nose: black fruit, a touch of shucked oyster shell and a hint of Chinese hoisin. There is certainly impressive delineation here. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit but a little more "gourmand" than the Echezeaux with palpable salinity on the edgy, structured finish. This constitutes a more masculine Clos de Vougeot that will require 4-6 years in bottle.
Anticipated maturity: 2019-2027
