Clos Frantin

2007 Clos Frantin Clos de Vougeot

By on March 31, 2009 #asides

An elegant, more red-shaded nose that’s rounded with a little wood-spice. Plenty of ripe tannin and a really impressive complex intensity in the mid-palate that today is coated with tannin. Lovely base material.

2006 Clos Frantin Clos de Vougeot

By on March 31, 2008 #asides

An impressive, layered nose with hints of coffee. Full-packed palate with plenty of structure. There’s more here, both dimension and structure. It’s certainly a little austere, but it’s not that tough and it is very, very impressive.

2005 Clos Frantin Clos de Vougeot

By on March 31, 2007 #asides

Medium-plus colour. The nose is very fine; high-toned, linear with delicate red and black fruits. Executive packaging on the palate – good fruit, plenty of tannin, quite some extension into the finish – an almost haunting finish. Not even vaguely austere, just very, very classy. Bravo.

2004 Clos Frantin Clos de Vougeot

By on February 28, 2006 #asides

Versus the Malconsorts; darker with a much tighter nose – almost unforgiving in nature – classic, austere, young Clos de Vougeot. Very linear in presentation, concentrated, long and backed up with very executive tannins – very fine. This wine makes quite a statement, and rather like their (Pavillon’s) Corton-Charlemagne, a wine for the future.

1999 Clos Frantin Clos de Vougeot

By on June 30, 2005 #asides

Medium-plus red, still with a cherry-red rim. The nose has a rasping mineral, indeed earthy note, behind there’s a lovely deep red fruit aspect – very good so-far. There’s some of that earthy aspect on the palate too (geosmin?) but the fruit is splendid behind, as is the overall balance. I’d like a little more length but this has very good base material – I’m concerned about that earthy aspect, but not enough to stop me buying a couple more for reference.

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