Chateau de la Tour, Clos Vougeot Vv Vintage:2009 the gentlest hints of honey

the gentlest hints of honey

In its youth

backward and brooding nose reluctantly gives up hints of very earthy dark pinot fruit nuanced by a distinct animale hint that merges into broad-shouldered flavors that offer excellent volume and concentration that finishes with just a hint of dryness and plenty of minerality

the 2017 Flor de Pingus was produced from very concentrated grapes with lots of tannin

The tannins are bold and fleshy

Chateau de la Tour, Clos Vougeot Vv Vintage:2009 the gentlest hints of honeyA wonderfully expressive and broad ranging nose offers up notes of plums, black cherries, floral hints that combine with moderate wood influence. This is a powerful, dense, concentrated yet impressively refined wine with plenty of inner mouth perfume as well as an abundance of palate coating old vine sap that serves to cushion the still quite firm tannic spine on the strikingly persistent finish. This is evolving glacially and certainly much slower