Domaine Ponsot - Grand Cru Clos de la Roche 2007 (750ml)
Price: $1099.99
| Producer | Domaine Ponsot |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2007 |
| Sku | 68165 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Staff Description
Stunningly beautiful and drinking in its prime window.
If this is in consideration, go for it.
This is a stunning bottle of Burgundy, from a superlative producer, that is a recent release ex-cellars, from an old vine, Grand Cru site that is an impressive bottle.
Wine like this gives us: All. The. Feels.
Tasted twice (5/2019 and 3/2024)
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
This was a superb showing for the 2007 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Cuvée Vieilles Vignes, a brilliant wine that bursts from the glass with a complex and maturing bouquet of red cherries, caramelized orange rind, cinnamon, potpourri and sweet soil tones. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, textural and satiny, with a concentrated, layered core, tangy acids and a stunningly long, sapid finish. This has always been a brilliant wine that transcends the vintage, but new dimensions are becoming apparent as it enters its second decade. This was the last vintage bottled under natural cork chez Ponsot.
Burghound: 94 Points
A magnificently complex nose offers up a mix of both high and medium-toned aromas of mostly red berries but with a panoply of background nuances including leather, tea, underbrush, spice hints, jerky and smoke, most of which transfer to the textured, intense and precise full-bodied flavors that are, somewhat surprisingly, not quite as dense as those of the Clos St. Denis but actually finer (normally it's the reverse), all wrapped in a hugely long and explosive finish that completely coats the palate with extract, indeed so much of it that this does not seem all that structured yet it will clearly need at least 15 years to be at its best (from 2022). Note that there was a hair of backend dryness in evidence that I am attributing to the recent bottling.
