One of the nicest side effects of my completing my historical feature on the Gouges family earlier this year was my finally understanding just how brilliant a bottling the Clos des Porrets is here year in and year out...
One of the nicest side effects of my completing my historical feature on the Gouges family earlier this year was my finally understanding just how brilliant a bottling the Clos des Porrets is here year in and year out. The 2014 looks destined to be a reference point vintage for this fine terroir, as the wine is very refined on both the nose and palate out of the blocks. The superb bouquet is a blend of red and black cherries, coffee, pigeon, a gorgeous base of soil tones, fresh herbs and a hint of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and properly reserved in personality, with a great core of pure fruit, fine soil signature and a very, very long, fine-grained finish. This will be a supremely elegant vintage of Clos des Porrets.