Chateau de la Tour, Clos Vougeot Vv Vintage:2009 In its youth

In its youth

dry personalities

I was really looking forward to the bottled version of the 2018 Pingus after a great showing of the cask sample last year

(100% stems)

The tannins are bold and fleshy

Chateau de la Tour, Clos Vougeot Vv Vintage:2009 In its youthA wonderfully expressive and broad ranging nose offers up notes of plums, black cherries, floral hints that combine with moderate wood influence. This is a powerful, dense, concentrated yet impressively refined wine with plenty of inner mouth perfume as well as an abundance of palate coating old vine sap that serves to cushion the still quite firm tannic spine on the strikingly persistent finish. This is evolving glacially and certainly much slower