Wine Spectator: This is loaded with sweet fruit, verging on jammy, but there's a refreshing, racy side as well. So much so that the wine shuts down, though the lasting impression is sweet fru...

Wine Spectator: A lean, wiry red, with a linear profile and driving energy. At its core is a laser of cherry, with spice, earth and mineral notes revolving around it. The tannins clamp down o...

About this Wine: Clos de Vougeot grand cru wines are harmonious, round, generous, fleshy, ample, mellow, racy and elegant, in colour a deep rich ruby red.

The bouquet is of quite except...

Burghound: This is also relatively wood-influenced as the oak sets off ripe but fresh aromas of plum, spice and earth, all of which continue onto the powerful and well-muscled middle wei...

Burghound: An intensely earthy and very fresh layered red berry fruit suffused nose introduces rich and full-bodied flavors where the volume imposes no diminution of the precise and deta...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Red-ruby. Black cherry and licorice complicated by fresh herbs and pepper: classic cool year Clos Vougeot aromas. Juicy and tight, showing less ripeness and expansiveness than...

About this Wine: Nuits St Georges wines make you long to bite into them. Although their name evokes twilight and nightfall, these premier crus have a fairly vigorous nature, hard while immatur...

Wine Spectator: A gorgeous Gevrey, this exudes floral and sweet berry aromas that lead a beam of cherry flavor, with notes of blackberry, spice and mineral. This seems pretty for the appellat...

Burghound: A deft touch of wood adds nuance to the otherwise elegant and pure red and blue berry fruit aromas that display a lovely touch of violets that serve as a graceful introduction...

Burghound: Light wood influence does not interfere with the ultra fresh and complex nose featuring notably sauvage red and dark pinot fruit aromas cut with plenty of warm earth nuances t...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The Perrot-Minot 2008 Chambolle Musigny Les Echanges Vieilles Vignes smells of ripe blackberries with resinous, caramelized suggestions of maple syrup, and a smoky, sweet inti...

Burghound: I very much like the nose of this wine as it's classic Morey but elegant and quite pure with moderately earthy wild red berry fruit aromas that convey a subtle sense of the sa...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep red-ruby. Knockout nose combines black raspberry, licorice, smoky minerality and complex earth tones. Superripe, rich and full but suave, with ripe acidity framing the co...

Wine Spectator: Boasting cherry, raspberry and a hint of gamy, forest floor detritus, this red cruises with its vibrant structure. This is harmonious, just needs more time to integrate. The f...

Christopher Massie: Beautiful ruby rim, medium ruby to the core. Captivating Gevrey nuances of iron, mineral and peat underscore bright and room-filling aromas of black cherry and currant. Medium...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Very deep red. Black cherry, licorice and a hint of peppermint on the nose, lifted by a violet topnote. Juicy acidity gives a penetrating quality to the flavors of dark frui...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright red. Musky huckleberry, blueberry, dried flowers and earth on the captivating nose and palate. Sweet, supple and aromatic, with a delicate, fine-grained texture ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright, full red. High-toned aromas of peppery red fruits. Pliant, sweet and minerally, but with the wine's new oak component currently masking its underlying fruit. Ulti...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: As usual, from a combination of contract grapes and purchased wine (with the same sources here since 2003), the Camille Giroud 2008 Latricieres-Chambertin presents peat and bl...