Ponsot Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru 2011 California layered wine

layered wine

voluptuously-textured mouthful of exceptionally extracted port

moderately austere and stunningly persistent finish

balanced and much more complex finale

it actually serves more to add lift to the restrained

Ponsot Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru 2011 California layered wineThis 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.