2012 Red Wine from Cote De Nuits

Wine Spectator, 93 points: A rich version, this savory red evokes cherry, blackberry, beet, black currant, smoke and tobacco notes. Dense yet supple in texture, with a firm underlying structure and a compact finish. The long aftertaste suggests tar...

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...

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: (ST89-91 points) Good bright, deep red. Very ripe but reduced nose offers scents of black raspberry and mocha. Fat and sweet on the palate, in a distinctly rich style but with less energy to its blacker fruit flavors...

Burghound, 90 points: A more elegant nose of relatively high-toned red berry fruit enjoys added breadth in the form of earth, sauvage and spice nuances. The supple, round and accessible middle weight flavors possess a lovely sense of energy on...

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...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: Tasted blind at the annual "Burgfest" tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Champeaux from the talented Arnaud Mortet has a slightly muted nose at first, perhaps caught at an awkward stage of adolescence...

View From The Cellar, 92 points: 92+ The Rossignols’ parcel in Combottes is always the very first vines that are harvested at the domaine, as they sit up high in the vineyard where the soil is very much defined by its fine, small stones here that retain...

Vinous, 89 points: Slightly liqueur-like red fruits and mint on the nose, along with a medicinal aspect. Ripe, dry, broad and concentrated, but showing a rougher texture than the 2013 version, and a bit less acidity. Finishes spicy and...

Burghound, 91 points: (BH89-91 points) Classic ruby. There is just enough wood to notice yet not so much as to compromise the appeal of the very pretty and quite fresh dark berry fruit and subtle spice aromas. The punchy and mouth coating...

Vinous, 90 points: (ST88-90 points) Good deep red. Very deep aromas of blackberry, licorice and violet. Juicy and tight, with a slightly green, peppery edge to the dark berry fruit. In a distinctly cool style, finishing with dry-edged...

Burghound, 93 points: (BH90-93 points) A fresh, cool and perfumed nose of mostly red currant and cherry is liberally laced with notes of earth, underbrush and oak nuances. There is a very forward, even lush palate impression to the bigger...

Vinous, 92 points: (ST90-92 points) Bright red. A sexy note of reduction to the wild aromas of redcurrant, rust and minerals. Intensely flavored and nicely perfumed in the mouth, with lovely floral lift to the strawberry fruit. A lovely...