Perrot-Minot's 2008 Clos Vougeot Vieilles Vignes - racked to tank two weeks before I tasted it - smells of purple plum dark cherry and charred red meat. Graphite crushed stone carbon and black pepper seem to suffuse the rich fruit and meat juices on an expansive but firm palate. Saliva-inducing salinity mingles with lip-curling tannin in the long finish of this dense muscular Pinot that I suspect will be a 20 year wine. --- David Schildknecht

A ripe earthy and reserved nose of cool dark berry fruit and humus leads to supple round and relatively generous medium weight plus flavors that possess good power and fine complexity on the moderately austere and solidly lengthy finish. This is not a particularly big example of the appellation and is actually relatively forward and accessible.