PERROT MINOT – LA RICHEMONE 2005

Description

Review by: David Schildknecht
Wine Advocate: Issue 170, April 2007
Rating: 94-95 POINTS

From 65-year-old vines in a crowded, high elevation sweet spot, surrounded by Damodes, Cras, Murgers, and Chaignots, with an altitude and exposition like that of La Tache (says Perrot-Minot) and not far south of the Vosne line and Les Malconsorts, the 2005 Nuits-St.-Georges La Richemone Vieilles Vignes was still in cask when I tasted it. Plum cake, blond tobacco, musk, and brown spices in the nose lead to a juicy, sleek, refined (though abundantly tannic), sweetly black cherry-fruited palate with spice inflections and mysterious meatiness indeed worthy of a top-flight Vosne cru. This finishes with irresistibly fat, flattering fruity intensity and brown spices. The roots go deep into the mother chalk as Perrot-Minot illustrates by means of a soil cross-section and the same can be said of the wine’s finish.

Review by: Bruce Sanderson
Wine Spectator: Issue May 15, 2008
Rating: 93 POINTS
Drink 2012 – 2025

Gorgeous sweet blackberry and raspberry fruit coat the mouth before the stern tannins take over. This is bright and complex, with mineral and spice notes adding depth. Has a long, blackberry-laced aftertaste. Best from 2012 through 2025.