The 2015 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru is straight up gorgeous. Possessing lighter ruby color as well as a huge perfume of framboise, cured meats, dried flowers, smoky oak, and exotic spices/incense, this beauty packs serious richness and depth on the palate and has building tannin, beautifully integrated acidity, an opulent texture and thrilling length. It’s a large scaled 2015 that never puts a foot wrong, offers beautiful complexity, and has an underlying elegance that will allow it to age gracefully for two decades or more. Bravo to Olivier Bernstein and consultant Claude Gros!

Dark and smoky, delivering black cherry, black currant, graphite and wet earth aromas and flavors. Powerful, yet reined in by the lively acidity. The tannins are refined and well-integrated. Excellent length. Best from 2022 through 2036. 25 cases imported. -BS

(95 points) One parcel, planted with 80-year-old vines and planted in the middle of the Clos, supplies the grapes for this intense, expansively oaked wine. It's powerful, concentrated and rigorous yet far from jammy or over-ripe, with impressive concentration and balance supported by granular tannins.

(91-93) A brooding, ripe and almost mute nose only grudgingly offers up its aromas of various dark berries, earth and sauvage wisps. There is once again exceptionally good richness and volume to the full-bodied, mouth coating and powerful broad-shouldered flavors that deliver good if not excellent length on the noticeably warm and firm finish. This robust and imposing effort should benefit from extended cellaring because even with the warm it's clear that the tannins are fully mature.