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Chateau de la Tour, Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru Vieilles Vignes 2011
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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(aged in 75% new oak): Good deep red. Musky, deep aromas of raspberry, chocolate and nutty oak. A step up in intensity and definition from the basic cuvee, with sweet red fruit and cocoa powder flavors complemented by burnished wood tones. Lovely energy for such a broad wine. Finishes with a fine dusting of tannins. Today I find this more vibrant than the 2012 version.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Bright, dark red. Darker and more liqueur-like on the nose than the cuvee classique, offering aromas of black fruits, chocolate and mocha. Very ripe and rich, with the chocolatey quality carrying through on the palate. This savory wine has more of everything than the basic cuvee but is more reserved today. A note of cocoa may be due to dry stems from late-picked fruit (Labet does not use a destemmer). Finishes with huge, toothdusting tannins that clearly will require several years of bottle aging upon the wine's release.
About the Producer
Chateau De La Tour is located in the wine-producing village of Vougeot under the Cote de Nuits appellation in Burgundy, France. It is the largest and largest vineyard in the wine-producing village. A prestigious winery. Chateau De La Tour was founded in 1890 by the Labet Family and the Dechelette Family and has a history of more than 100 years. Since the 1930s, all wines produced by Chateau De La Tour have been bottled in-house. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the wines produced by Chateau De La Tour experienced a relatively low period; by 1986, after the young Francois Labet took over the management of the winery , Chateau De La Tour winery began to carry out technical cooperation with the famous wine brewing master Guy Accad (Guy Accad), borrowing Mr. Guy's method to manage vineyards and brewing wine, and successfully produced fine wines of excellent quality, Revived the reputation of the winery. Since then, the quality of Chateau De La Tour's wines has been steadily increasing after the hiring of master winemaker Jean-Pierre Confuron as the winery's chief winemaker. Chateau De La Tour owns a total of 6 hectares of vineyards, planted only with Pinot Noir (Pinot Noir), a single grape variety. The vineyards of the winery are located on an upper slope in the village of Vaux, adjacent to the wine-producing village of Musigny. The soil is mostly brown limestone, which is very suitable for the growth of vines. In terms of vineyard management, unlike most wineries in Vauville, Chateau De La Tour adheres to an organic management method and pays great attention to the protection and appreciation of the land. It is worth mentioning that the production of the vineyards of Château De Letoux is very low, with less than 2,500 liters of grape juice per hectare of vineyard, thus guaranteeing the excellent quality of the grapes. In terms of winemaking, Chateau De La Tour has always believed that good grapes make high-quality wines, and every drop of high-quality wine is the crystallization of high-quality grapes. Therefore, the winery pays great attention to the wine-making process. When picking the grapes, the winery uses wicker baskets to collect the grapes, so that the oxidized grapes are filtered out, and the remaining grapes are carefully selected for whole bunch fermentation using natural yeast. In order to preserve the original flavor and varietal characteristics of the wine to the greatest extent, Deletou Winery has always insisted on not adopting processes such as filtration and clarification of the wine. Wines from the winery are bottled and stored in underground cellars for a decade or more before being released to the market. Therefore, most of the wines produced by Chateau De La Tour are full-bodied, powerful, rich in flavor and have great aging potential.
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