Ponsot Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru 2011 California balanced and much more complex

balanced and much more complex finale

Pretty much every component is better here than on the 2014

it actually serves more to add lift to the restrained

layered wine

Ponsot Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru 2011 California balanced and much more complexThis is also brooding and reticent with an intensely earthy nose of both red and dark pinot fruit that is trimmed in hints of game, leather and herbal tea. The old vines are very much in evidence as there is a true abundance of palate soaking dry extract that imparts a velvety mouth feel to the mid palate and buffers the very firm tannins on the youthfully austere, complex and hugely long finish.