Alex Lallos, JJ Buckley, October 2011

Dense ruby red core with a brilliant red rim. On the nose, a touch of oak surrounds a beautiful core of ripe blackberry, boysenberry and olalliberry, framed by a hint of mocha chocolate. This rich pinot noir boasts soft tannins and a melange of dark fruit and chocolate flavors complemented by a subtle touch of dried herbs. Each sip has it all-fruit, tannin, acidity, power and elegance. A super refined effort that should start drinking well in a few years and go easily for the next 15-20.

90 -92 points,

Burghound, January 2010

A ripe, earthy and reserved nose of cool dark berry fruit and humus leads to supple, round and relatively generous medium weight plus flavors that possess good power and fine complexity on the moderately austere and solidly lengthy finish. This is not a particularly big example of the appellation and is actually relatively forward and accessible.

92 -93 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, June 2010

Perrot-Minot's 2008 Clos Vougeot Vieilles Vignes - racked to tank two weeks before I tasted it - smells of purple plum, dark cherry, and charred red meat. Graphite, crushed stone, carbon, and black pepper seem to suffuse the rich fruit and meat juices on an expansive but firm palate. Saliva-inducing salinity mingles with lip-curling tannin in the long finish of this dense, muscular Pinot that I suspect will be a 20 year wine. --- David Schildknecht

About Winery

Christophe Perrot-Minot's passion for, as well as dedication to, staggering, old-vine Burgundy caught the attention of Robert Parker as far back as 1995. An introductory tasting at Christophe's family domaine in the mid-1990's (known at that time as Henri Perrot-Minot) would render Parker so enthralled with these singular efforts as to prompt the world's most respected palate to pen quite the eloquent - as well as motivational - sentiments, "Speaking of superstars, Christophe Perrot-Minot is a name that may become as famous as Lignier, Dugat, Lafon, Roumier, and the like. I was as excited when I left this domaine as I was when I walked out of Arnauld Ente's in Meursault. There is nothing more gratifying and invigorating than tasting a young person's wines for the first time and finding them to be superb. Too many producers seem to search out either power or finesse (not both) and in the process produce wines that are caricatures of what they were trying to accomplish. What this man has achieved in such a short time is truly remarkable." Robert Parker

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