2008 | Domaine Méo-Camuzet | Clos de Vougeot Online Hot Sale

2008 | Domaine Méo-Camuzet | Clos de Vougeot

Red Wine: 2008 | Domaine Méo-Camuzet | Clos de Vougeot

Firm ruby. Herby/upholstery-webbing nose. Then some guts. Structure. An interesting wine that should develop nicely.

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Producer: Domaine Méo-Camuzet

Ratings: WA | 92  VN | 92

Vintage: 2008

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.7%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Detailed Description

Firm ruby. Herby/upholstery-webbing nose. Then some guts. Structure. An interesting wine that should develop nicely. Good core of fruit. Still a little firm but all the ingredients are there.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Meo’s 2008 Clos Vougeot smells of charred, roasted red meats; smoky-sweet machine oil; metal shavings; and blackberry preserves. A correspondingly dark; sweet; smoky; subtly caramelized and bitter palate impression takes on aspects of medicinal herbal concentrate and saline, savory soy as you aerate the wine in your mouth. This is plush to an extent that covers over its tannins until they emerge grippingly in a finish whose sappy, subtly oily, sweet intensity no one is likely to deem “elegant,” but which is certainly impressive in its powerful way.

• Vinous: The 2008 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru has quite a herbaceous bouquet with earthy, mossy notes infusing red fruit. A little cheesy? The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins, a little dry, slightly minty with a little attenuation towards the cough candy finish.

Producer Information

Domaine Méo-Camuzet is a wine producer located in Vosne-Romanée in the Côte de Nuits. It produces some of the most celebrated wines from the Côte d’Or from a range of grand cru vineyards, including Richebourg, Clos de Vougeot, Corton and Echézeaux. Most of Méo-Camuzet’s wines are made from Pinot Noir, and are known for their delicate aromatic concentration. The founder of the estate was Etienne Camuzet, an early-20th Century politician based in Paris, who offered parts of his estate to a variety of sharecroppers to farm. Eventually, it came into the hands of Jean-Nicholas Méo in 1986, who realized that the extensive sharecropping meant that only a small portion of vines were under the domaine’s control. He set out a long-term strategy to regain the plots from the sharecroppers who were currently working them, with the goal of eventually having estate-grown fruit and bottling under his own label, Méo-Camuzet. One of these landholders was iconic Burgundy producer Henri Jayer. He had farmed the domaine’s land to bottle under his own label for about 40 years. He retired in 1988 and helped to advise Jean-Nicholas on the reacquisition of his vines. Méo-Camuzet now has 14 hectares (35 acres) of vines, including a part of the Cros Parantoux Premier Cru site, which was made famous by Jayer. Most of the vineyards are farmed as organically as possible, but Méo-Camuzet has chosen not to be certified, in order to be able to treat vines as the vintage dictates. Along with the grand cru wines, there are several wines made from premier cru vineyards along the Côte de Nuits, as well as a number of more generic village-level and Bourgogne wines.