2023 Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet, Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru

The 2023 Clos Vougeot Grand Cru offers a more complex bouquet than the 2022, articulating the terroir with greater panache and featuring wonderful red berry fruit, wild hedgerow and light touches of desiccated orange peel. The palate is medium-bodied with a sweet, luscious entry, smooth tannins and flavors of mulberry mixed with black cherries and cola, leading to a generous, slightly confit-like finish. Drink it over the next couple of decades.

The 2023 Clos Vougeot Grand Cru offers up aromas of raspberries and plums mingled with orange zest and petals. Medium to full-bodied, ample and suave, with lively acids and a sapid finish, it will offer a broad drinking window.

From old vines at the very bottom of the slope/cru. Cask sample. Mid-pale ruby. Red cherry and strawberry with a ferrous note on the nose. Medium-bodied with good concentration. Fine, crisp acidity and some smoky complexity on the weighty finish. Grows in volume with a ripe, salty finish. (MH)