Domaine Leroy
2014Clos de VougeotGrand Cru Red 750 ml
Score: 95
Tasted: Jan 15, 2017
Drink: 2034+
Issue: 65
Note: from 3 separate parcels situated in each of the 3 levels, e.g. upper, middle and lower
Producer note: Lalou Bize-Leroy was away at the time of my visit and thus I don’t have the benefit of her reflections on the 2014 vintage. I was greeted instead by Gilles Desprez who ably conducted the tasting. He didn’t have a lot of details but did note that fruit was harvested between the 10th and 17th of September and that net yields were around 22 hl/ha. He further commented that the 2014s were bottled in January 2016. As the commentaries and ratings confirm, Mme Leroy has once again produced remarkably good wines that without question transcend the general quality of the vintage. It’s not so much that the wines are powerhouses of exceptional concentration, so much as they are just so harmonious and seamless that you can’t help but admire their grace and inner beauty. (Martine’s Wines, www.martineswines.com, Novato, CA; Justerini & Brooks, www.justerini.com, John Armit, www.armit.co.uk, Howard Ripley, www.howardripley.com, and Lay & Wheeler, www.laywheeler.com, all UK).
Tasting note: A slightly wild nose consists of underbrush, freshly turned earth, smoked game and subtle spice hints on the dense and liqueur-like dark berry fruit aromas. The dusty, intense and well-muscled big-bodied flavors are shaped by very firm but relatively sophisticated tannins on the well-balanced and youthfully austere finale that exhibits simply huge length. The imposing structure is more of a background element at present because of all the mid-palate sap, but this will be a long-distance runner.
Domaine Leroy, Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
US$21,500 / 每箱價格
Domaine Leroy
2014Clos de VougeotGrand Cru Red 750 ml
Score: 95
Tasted: Jan 15, 2017
Drink: 2034+
Issue: 65
Note: from 3 separate parcels situated in each of the 3 levels, e.g. upper, middle and lower
Producer note: Lalou Bize-Leroy was away at the time of my visit and thus I don’t have the benefit of her reflections on the 2014 vintage. I was greeted instead by Gilles Desprez who ably conducted the tasting. He didn’t have a lot of details but did note that fruit was harvested between the 10th and 17th of September and that net yields were around 22 hl/ha. He further commented that the 2014s were bottled in January 2016. As the commentaries and ratings confirm, Mme Leroy has once again produced remarkably good wines that without question transcend the general quality of the vintage. It’s not so much that the wines are powerhouses of exceptional concentration, so much as they are just so harmonious and seamless that you can’t help but admire their grace and inner beauty. (Martine’s Wines, www.martineswines.com, Novato, CA; Justerini & Brooks, www.justerini.com, John Armit, www.armit.co.uk, Howard Ripley, www.howardripley.com, and Lay & Wheeler, www.laywheeler.com, all UK).
Tasting note: A slightly wild nose consists of underbrush, freshly turned earth, smoked game and subtle spice hints on the dense and liqueur-like dark berry fruit aromas. The dusty, intense and well-muscled big-bodied flavors are shaped by very firm but relatively sophisticated tannins on the well-balanced and youthfully austere finale that exhibits simply huge length. The imposing structure is more of a background element at present because of all the mid-palate sap, but this will be a long-distance runner.
