Ponsot Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru 2011 California Pretty much every component is

Pretty much every component is better here than on the 2014

balanced and much more complex finale

spicier than the 1997

There is even more size

A massive wine that is clearly of first-growth quality in this vintage

Ponsot Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru 2011 California Pretty much every component isThis 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.