About this Wine: "...intense and complex bouquet, with peach, apricot, mango candied white fruit, honey, vanilla, elderflower, and sugar candy and lily of the valley aromas. Full on the palate...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Vougeot Le Clos du Prieure is another of the more delicate, restrained wines in this lineup. Sweet, silky tannins and floral notes round out the finish. Anticipated m...

About this Wine: The wines from "Les Avaux" are very deep and dark in colour. The bouquet is very varied and complex, with animal notes suggestive of leather and aromas of red and dark fruits,...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good deep red with a ruby tinge. Silky on entry, then sweet and penetrating in the middle palate, with cherry and redcurrant fruit flavors lifted by spices. Very long and su...

About this Wine: Characteristics of the appellation:
Very refined bouquet, developing citrus, white-fleshed fruit and floral notes. Fresh and supple, the wine is marked by mineral notes tha...

Wine Spectator: Quite vibrant, with a racy core of dark raspberry, currant and boysenberry fruit that drives along a solid graphite spine. The long, alluring finish stretches out impressively...

Wine Spectator: Very solid, with a dark black fruit profile of currant, blackberry and fig framed by roasted alder wood and backed by bittersweet ganache and mouthwatering briar notes on the ...

Wine Spectator: A tantalizing mix of lemon, oyster shell, white peach and vanilla flavors, but underneath it all there's a mineral component. Tightens up on the finish, so give this a few yea...

About this Wine: 15.4 hectares grown on limestone and chalky clay. This wine combines richness and generosity, without  losing any of Volnay's elegance
and finesse. Rich and fleshy wi...

About this Wine: This famous vineyard derives its name from its geographical position on a steep slope where the workers would hurt their feet when digging the soil. Bouchard Père & Fils h...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Pale bright yellow. Lemon and spicy oak on the nose. Sweet and fresh, with good acid spine to the pure floral and lemon flavors. Boasts good tension and sap for Poruzots. Fini...

Ian Conroy: Ruby core fades to a light garnet rim. A bright and high toned bouquet shows good intensity at a young age. Showing fresh raspberry, Bing cherry, Japanese plum, orange zest, f...

Wine Spectator: Broad and fleshy, exhibiting lots of melted fig, black currant paste and graphite notes woven with maduro tobacco and bittersweet cocoa. There's a long, smoldering finish. Bes...

Wine Spectator: Features a dark currant and blackberry coulis core, surrounded by charcoal, singed savory and light coffee notes. The solid, firm, taut finish should let this linger in the ce...

Geoffrey Binder: Brilliant crimson garnet, this is a little closed at first, expressing subtle wet rock and black cherry aromas. With a little aeration, this opens up to reveal black plum, ced...

Wine Spectator: This is rich and very plush, but really pure as well, with gorgeous macerated cherry, cassis and blackberry preserves flavors gliding along, carried by remarkably polished tan...

Wine Spectator: Still a touch raw, with a coating of singed wood and coffee notes that are yet to meld fully. But there's velvety-textured blackberry, plum sauce and boysenberry fruit, with a...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Fresh aromas and flavors of peach and white flowers. Bright and intensely flavored, with lovely length and verve for the year.

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (Boillot works with four lieux-dits, Narvaux, Tillets, Chevaliers and Clos du Cromin) Bright, pale yellow. Expressive aromas of stone and soft citrus fruits, butter and vanill...

About this Wine: Grape variety: Chardonnay
Exposure: South South-East  Right Bank  
Soil: Kimmeridgian limestone  
Age of the vines: 35 and 56  years
Grape ha...