Vosne Romanée, Aux Malconsorts, 1er Cru, 2016
Flowing, easy and silky with underlying ‘Malconsort’ grunt and muscle. Distinctly more extrovert and floral than usual, very attractive already, lovely juicy red berry and damson fruit, notes of cherry blossom with gentle tannic grip providing a framework for the fruit. A vineyard that sits next to the Boudots of Nuits St Georges that can produce similarly powerful, gripping wines. The other side of the Vosne commune to Suchots and totally the other side of the spectrum in terms of style.
critic reviews
The 2016 Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsorts 1er Cru offers attractive pastille-like red berry fruit on the nose. Here the new oak is very well assimilated and allows the terroir to shine through. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy ripe red berry fruit, a fine bead of acidity, impressive mineralité and precision towards the finish, although it does begin to flag with aeration, hence a lower score than I was hoping to give. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting.