Domaine Ponsot Grand Cru Clos de la Roche Vieilles Vignes 2022

Name: Domaine Ponsot Grand Cru Clos de la Roche Vieilles Vignes 2022
Brand: Domaine Ponsot
SKU: BIB25470-750
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About this Wine

The Clos de la Roche Vieilles Vignes is Domaine Ponsot’s emblematic red Burgundy and one of the finest wines of the Côte de Nuits. The terroir largely explains why. Domaine Ponsot is famously the largest landowner in Clos de la Roche, perfectly situated almost entirely within the historic Clos and with some of the region’s oldest vines (averaging approximately 65 years of age).

Clos de la Roche was expanded in the 1950s to include a range of neighbouring sites (Les Fremières, Les Genevrières, Les Mochamps, Monts Luisants, etc.) surrounding the original vineyard. As you might expect, the original terroir (widely considered the finest part of the Clos de la Roche appellation) makes different wines from the surrounding sites now included in the AOC. Domaine Ponsot owns just over three hectares of this original 4.5-hectare Clos. The rest of Ponsot’s holdings are within the Monts Luisants lieu-dit (which has always been bottled and sold as Clos de la Roche as it has the same soil, though it sits higher on the slope). The grapes from Monts Luisants add freshness to the natural power from the original Clos.

Terroir aside, this wine is the reference point for the AOC. To us, it is not only Ponsot’s grandest wine, but one of the greatest reds in Burgundy. Exactly how much of the quality relates to terroir and how much to vine age, plant material and farming quality is impossible to separate, yet all these factors seamlessly unite to create a truly remarkable wine.

Type	Red Wine
Varietal(s)	Pinot Noir
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Appellation	Clos de la Roche Grand Cru AOC
Brand	Domaine Ponsot
Vintage	2022.0

Wines from Burgundy

A legendary wine region setting the benchmark for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay worldwide. In the Jurassic time period, the area was part of a vast, tropical sea. Over hundreds of millions of years, the seabed transformed into various layers of limestone, sandstone and clay soils that have entrapped the fossils of ancient sea creatures. These soils are the secret behind the zesty minerality that Burgundy wines are famous for.

Burgundy is probably the most terroir-centric wine region in France. Huge emphasis is placed on the specific vineyard, soil type, elevation, and angle of slope where the wines were made. This is reflected on the wine's labels where appellations are more prominently displayed compared to the producers’ names.

The most prestigious wines of the region come from a long and narrow escarpment called the Côte d'Or split into the Côte de Nuits to the north and the Côte de Beaune to the south. Côte de Nuits produces many of the world’s finest Pinot Noir’s, all but one of Burgundy’s red Grand Crus are made in this area. Whilst interestingly, the opposite is true for the Côte de Beaune where all but one of the Chardonnay Grand Crus are made. From this information it may seem you should be buying a Pinot from the North and Chardonnay from the south, that is only true for the pinnacle of Burgundian wines. Both outstanding reds and whites are produced throughout the Côte d'Or.

In Burgundy, they use a wine quality tier system that goes:
Grand Crus 1.4% of total production
Premier (1er) Crus 10.2% of total production
Appellations Villages 37.3% of total production
Appellations Regionales 51.1% of total production

When one refers to “Burgundy wines” they are usually talking about those produced in and around the Côte d'Or. While the Chardonnay’s from Chablis and the Gamay’s from Beaujolais are formally apart of the Burgundy wine region, those subregions are generally referred to by their own names rather than being considered “Burgundy wines”.

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