Thierry Violot-Guillemard Beaune Clos des Mouches Premier Cru 2016
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The red wine is smooth and supple, full of elegance with a fine finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Beaune 1er Cru Clos des Mouches offers up an attractive bouquet of plums, wild berries and licorice, followed by a medium to full-bodied, velvety palate that's texturally elegant and attractively vibrant, concluding with good length on the finish.
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Decanter
Violot-Guillemard produced a normal harvest of Clos des Mouches in 2016, and the wine is very attractive, offering up aromas of creamy red and black fruit and licorice, with a supple, open-knit but nicely concentrated palate impression structured around fine, velvety tannins and revealing a juicy core of fruit.
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Jasper Morris
Medium density youthful colour. There is a little reduction on the nose, but not aggressive. Add marks if and when this blows off, because for the moment it also slightly hardens the finish. No question about the intensity though, nor the length 88. The reduction does blow off quite quickly, and the finish is very stylish now.
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
While the city represents the epicenter of wine production in Burgundy, the term, “Beaune” also refers to the specific sub-appellation of the greater Côte de Beaune, whose vineyards climb up the pastoral slopes that border the city to its west. Originally founded as a Roman camp by Julius Caesar, the city of Beaune eventually became the seat of the dukes of Burgundy until the 13th century. Today it is home to top négociants such as Louis Jadot, Joseph Drouhin, Louis Latour, and Bouchard Père et Fils.
The appellation, dominated by Pinot Noir plantings, represents a lovely and charming place to begin to understand red Burgundy. Its sandy soils create light and supple, floral driven Pinot Noir. These wines are designed to be enjoyed within five to 10 years. The vineyards of Beaune span a broad swath of Premier Crus from Savigny-lès-Beaune to its border with Pommard.
Chardonnay acreage here has been increasing here in the more recent years.