Clos de Vougeot AOC

Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru AOC

Located in the vineyards of the Côte de Nuits, the northernmost wine region of Burgundy, Clos de Vougeot is a Grand Cru of Vougeot appellation. This illustrious appellation produces a great red wine made from Pinot Noir. A prestigious wine known and respected throughout the world. Its two remarkable features are its persistent flavour and its amazing ageing potential, up to 30 years.

APPELLATION CLOS DE VOUGEOT GRAND CRU

TASTING NOTES

RED WINE

Appearance: The colour varies from clear raspberry red to intense garnet. A sumptuous red hue.

Nose: A unique bouquet of sweet scents. The range brings together freshly bloomed rose, dewy violet, damp reseda, rosehip flower and other registers of red and black berries, liquorice, wild mint and truffle.

Palate: On the palate, a great finesse that echoes the bouquet of aromas on the nose. This wine is full-bodied and mellow. It has two remarkable features: its astonishing persistence on the palate and its exceptional ageing potential.

Service: 16 to 18°C

Ageing potential: 10 to 30 years, and even beyond for the best vintages.

FOOD AND WINE PAIRING

RED WINE Suitable for poultry and tender game meats, in sauce or grilled: pheasant, quail or venison. Dishes such as a roasted leg of lamb or a nice piece of prime rib. Wild mushrooms, truffles. Washed-rind cheeses: Epoisse.

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A GREAT GRAND CRU

Spread over 49 hectares, the appellation nevertheless concentrates the greatness of the prestigious wines of Burgundy. The worldwide fame of the Clos de Vougeot vineyard is almost mythical. When one makes the financial effort to acquire or to offer this great wine, which moreover is a Grand Cru, it is still necessary to have or to suppose the meritorious patience to forget it again during a few years until it reaches its potential. It is, par excellence, a wine dedicated to very special occasions and celebrations.

A PRECIOUS LEGACY OF MONASTIC WORK

Burgundy wines are the fruit of ancestral know-how dating back to the Middle Ages. Between the 6th and 15th centuries, Burgundy's monastic communities patiently developed methods for working the vines. With all the care given to the grapes, from the vineyard to the cellar, this authentic know-how has been passed down from generation to generation until today.

Founded around 1110 by the Abbey of Cîteaux, the Clos de Vougeot is at the same time a vineyard, a wine and a castle, surrounded by the same walls for centuries. A surrounding wall that is forbidden to be knocked down, even if it is crumbling over the years, and has become the historical emblem of the appellation. The Clos took its name around 1330, when the monks deemed it necessary to delimit it with a wall. Indeed, at the time, it was necessary to satisfy the most sumptuous pontiff of Avignon. The notion of an enclosed parcel was born. A parcel system that has contributed to the evolution of the quality of wines in the Burgundy vineyards. The Clos Vougeot parcel system is remembered for its exceptional longevity. By anchoring viticulture on its land, this parcel system has favoured the emergence of the notion of terroirs, known today as "Climats" in the region. The surface area is nowadays divided into a hundred or so plots belonging to 80 owners. A heritage that these winegrowers honour with excellence.