Clos de la Roche, Grand Cru, 2015
Rich and voluptuous, enticing ripe sweet fruit flavours of cherry, kirsch and flowers, there is life and energy here too. Nicely weighted and excellent length of flavour. Highly seductive. Clos de la Roche is a warm terroir that produces bold, opulent wines. Rarely more than four barrels are made.
critic reviews
The 2015 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru has a pastille-like purity on the nose, but not quite the complexity and focus of its peers. Lush strawberry and raspberry coulis scents are backed by hints of blueberry and violet. The richness bestowed by the growing season seems to usurp terroir expression in this instance. The glossy palate is medium-bodied and satiny in texture, with supple tannin and some quality new oak splashed all over, but perhaps that is masking a lack of complexity and terroir expression on the prune-tinged finish. Time will tell. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.