Domaine Ponsot Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Cuvee Vieilles Vignes 2016 (1.5L) Cayuga Lake

Domaine Ponsot Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Cuvee Vieilles Vignes 2016 (1.5L) Cayuga Lake97 points John Gilman Not surprisingly, the 2016 Clos de la Roche Vieilles Vignes from Domaine Ponsot is utterly brilliant. The bouquet is deep, sappy and very pure, delivering scents of red and black cherries, plums, raw cocoa, gamebird, woodsmoke and a magically complex base of soil tones. On the palate the wine is pure, sappy and very transparent in profile, with a great core of fruit, impeccable focus and balance, suave, ripe tannins and a very,

clay soils and cool

The finish hs a good length

The nose is complex: aromas of red fruit and floral aromas follow over to notes of spices and impressions of forest floor and plums

This velvety wine is blended from antique barrels of the very best tawny

the broad texture and cheese-y nuance is truly fantastic

as well as endings

Soft and delicious at first

Attributes

having power and wonderful balance in the characteristic Bordeaux style

seamless perfection

Hot times call for cool

bay and sweet vanilla are interwoven in this robust