(JG89-92 points) The 2006 Clos des Ducs is a bit more modern in style than the wines produced here prior to Jacques d’Angerville passing away, but it is a very well-made wine just the same. The wine offers up a complex...
(JG89-92 points) The 2006 Clos des Ducs is a bit more modern in style than the wines produced here prior to Jacques d’Angerville passing away, but it is a very well-made wine just the same. The wine offers up a complex and classy nose of cherries, pomegranate, coffee, woodsmoke, incipient notes of gamebird, soil tones and a touch of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and still quite youthfully structured, with a good core, fine focus and grip and a long, fairly chewy finish that shows just a touch of unexpected wood tannins poking through. These days, the domaine rotates its barrels on a ten year rotation, so the same ten percent new oak as was used back in Jacques d’Angerville’s day is now augmented by a lot of one, two and three year-old wood that would have been forty years of age back in the old days here. So the wines show more oak influence as a result, but they are still quite well made in their new idiom. 2018-2040?