Domaine Ponsot Clos de La Roche Cuvee VV 2011 St Aubin and the balance Cabernet Franc

and the balance Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot

Try from 2021

This wine is so translucent and pure

and some gamey notes (I'd almost guess Saint Joseph by the aromatics) emerge from the 2020 Crozes Hermitage Vieilles Vignes

weighty core of ripe fruit

Domaine Ponsot Clos de La Roche Cuvee VV 2011 St Aubin and the balance Cabernet Franc95 Points The Wine Advocate, Neal Martin Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. Laurent Ponsots Clos de la Roche Vieilles Vignes '11 is reticent at first and demands coaxing, although it repays the patient imbiber with lively floral scents that are entwined with strawberry pastilles and cranberry. The palate is medium bodied with a fleshy and almost corpulent entry, at least for a 2011 Cte de Nuits. There is admirable depth