Clos de la Roche VV 2007

Clos de la Roche / Ponsot, Domaine

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Tasting Notes
A brilliant wine from Laurent Ponsot, the ’07 should not be missed. It has retained that compelling wild strawberry, raspberry, mine rally nose that soars once it is poured (hey that rhymes!) The palate is medium-bodied with a sense of brooding power that is almost overwhelming, punched through with crisp acidity and a sorbet-like sweetness towards the finish. Combines intensity with elegance with ease. Drink 2015-2040+ Tasted March 2010. Score: 95 Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2015-2040+ 01 September 2010
Bacon fat, game, dark berries and decadent suggestions of faded lily and musky, nose-wrinkling narcissus scent the Ponsot 2007 Clos de La Roche Cuvee Vieilles Vignes. Reconvening on a finely-tannic, expansive palate, the game and smoked meat elements take precedence at least for now over the wines black fruits. But much of the sense of clarity and buoyancy as well as primary juiciness that rendered the corresponding Clos St.-Denis so thrilling return in the finish here, too, along with a persistently deep alliance of carnal and stony mineral elements. I would expect this to perform profoundly over the next two decades. Score: 95 David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2010-2030 01 June 2010
A magnificently complex nose offers up a mix of both high and medium-toned aromas of mostly red berries but with a panoply of background nuances including leather, tea, underbrush, spice hints, jerky and smoke, most of which transfer to the textured, intense and precise full-bodied flavors that are, somewhat surprisingly, not quite as dense as those of the Clos St. Denis but actually finer (normally it's the reverse), all wrapped in a hugely long and explosive finish that completely coats the palate with extract, indeed so much of it that this does not seem all that structured yet it will clearly need at least 15 years to be at its best. Note that there was a hair of backend dryness in evidence that I am attributing to the recent bottling. Score: 94 Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2022+ 30 January 2010

Tasting Notes

A brilliant wine from Laurent Ponsot, the ’07 should not be missed. It has retained that compelling wild strawberry, raspberry, mine rally nose that soars once it is poured (hey that rhymes!) The palate is medium-bodied with a sense of brooding power that is almost overwhelming, punched through with crisp acidity and a sorbet-like sweetness towards the finish. Combines intensity with elegance with ease. Drink 2015-2040+ Tasted March 2010.

Score: 95

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2015-2040+ 01 September 2010

Bacon fat, game, dark berries and decadent suggestions of faded lily and musky, nose-wrinkling narcissus scent the Ponsot 2007 Clos de La Roche Cuvee Vieilles Vignes. Reconvening on a finely-tannic, expansive palate, the game and smoked meat elements take precedence at least for now over the wines black fruits. But much of the sense of clarity and buoyancy as well as primary juiciness that rendered the corresponding Clos St.-Denis so thrilling return in the finish here, too, along with a persistently deep alliance of carnal and stony mineral elements. I would expect this to perform profoundly over the next two decades.

Score: 95

David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2010-2030 01 June 2010

A magnificently complex nose offers up a mix of both high and medium-toned aromas of mostly red berries but with a panoply of background nuances including leather, tea, underbrush, spice hints, jerky and smoke, most of which transfer to the textured, intense and precise full-bodied flavors that are, somewhat surprisingly, not quite as dense as those of the Clos St. Denis but actually finer (normally it's the reverse), all wrapped in a hugely long and explosive finish that completely coats the palate with extract, indeed so much of it that this does not seem all that structured yet it will clearly need at least 15 years to be at its best. Note that there was a hair of backend dryness in evidence that I am attributing to the recent bottling.

Score: 94

Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2022+ 30 January 2010

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