Marsannay, Clos du Roy, 2013
A destalked Marsannay offering a darker more powerful side than the Château’s other Marsannay cuvées. With this power comes focus, offering wonderfully precise sloe and bramble fruit, beautifully etched tannins, with a savoury minerally, gravelly quality underpinning the ripe crushed black fruits. Excellent. A cuvée made from a plot of 70 year-old vines planted stony soils with a clay subsoil. A great vineyard and surely a candidate for 1er Cru status if Marsannay ever wins that right.
critic reviews
Medium bright red. Slightly diffuse aromas of cherry, strawberry, spices and earth. Riper and more penetrating than the basic Marsannay bottling, showing decent intensity and inner-mouth lift to the flavors of dark cherry, spices and herbs. Still a bit spiky with acidity but this wine has decent material to support its tannins. Not bad. (Unfortunately, my sample of the Marsannay Les Longeroies was corked.)