Bruno Clair

Marsannay, Les Vaudenelles, 2021

Name: Marsannay, Les Vaudenelles
Brand: Bruno Clair

88-90/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

88-90/100

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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

This is one of the most complete Vaudenelles we’ve tasted, the lower yields giving this a sense of density and volume that is not always present in this cuvee. Engaging, fruit forward with ripe cherry and autumn raspberry, but crucially finishing fresh. There’s some wine here. Fermented with 20% whole bunches and aged in predominantly used oak barrels. Vaudenelles is a relatively high Marsannay vineyard whose white marl soils produce fine- grained elegant wines that can often be approached relatively young.

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Critic Reviews

88-90/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

From white marl soils at the top of the slope, Clair's 2021 Marsannay Les Vaudenelles offers up scents of sweet red berries, plums and petals. Medium-bodied, supple and melting, with a pure core of fruit, lively acids and a saline finish, it's an elegant, fine-boned red in the making.

date of review 01/2023

88-90/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2021 Marsannay Les Vaudenelles has a fragrant bouquet with rose petal tinged red fruit - fine delineation and focus. The palate is sappy on the entry, pliant tannins with an appealing pure, lilting finish.

drinking window 2024 - 2032

date of review 01/2023

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