2012 Red Wine from Cote De Nuits

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: Tasted blind at the annual "Burgfest" tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru from Louis Jadot has a lifted, licorice-tinged bouquet with plenty of guts to it. There aromatics do not hold back. The palate is...

Vinous, 91 points: (ST88-91 points) Medium red. Cool aromas of blueberry, blackberry and licorice. The palate offers penetrating clarity and sappy acidity, with intense dark berry and spice flavors complicated by saline and leather nuances...

Vinous, 93 points: (AG91-93 points) The 2012 Clos Vougeot is another huge, explosive wine from Chézeaux in this vintage. Smoke, iron, tar, licorice and dark red fruit notes jump from the glass. Broad- shouldered, rich and intense to the...

Burghound, 94 points: (BH92-94 points) This is more expressive than it usually is at this point in its development with a broad-ranging nose of red currant, pungent earth, soft wood spice and hints of underbrush. There is a lovely vibrancy to...

Vinous, 90 points: Bright medium red. Musky redcurrant and plum aromas are complicated by game and leather nuances. Sweet and fine-grained, offering rich flavors of red and purple fruits. This elegant, concentrated village wine is already...

Vinous, 94 points: (AG92-94 points) Dugat-Py's 2012 Gevrey-Chambertin Cœur du Roy emerges from parcels ranging from 50-103 years of age. Dark cherry, plum, smoke, licorice and black olive are rich and explosive on the palate, The 2012 is...

View From The Cellar, 91 points: I did not taste the Capita old vine cuvée on this visit (and cannot remember if the yields were sufficient to produce it this year, or if the old vine production was rolled into either this wine or the straight Gevrey in...

Burghound, 90 points: (BH88-90 points) Here the nose is fresher and a bit more elegant as well with its airy and cool red currant and humus suffused aromas. The attractively detailed middle weight flavors exude a fine minerality on the...

Vinous, 92 points: Healthy dark red. Superripe black cherry, blueberry and menthol on the nose. Rich, creamy and sweet, in a rather powerful style for this cuvée, but with a medicinal minerality energizing the mid-plate. Finishes with...

Burghound, 91 points: (BH88-91 points) Here the wood is slightly more pronounced though not so much that it dominates the pungently earthy nose of underbrush, sauvage and dark berry fruit nose that is very Gevrey in basic character. The...