Ponsot Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru 2011 California There is even more size

There is even more size

layered wine

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

it actually serves more to add lift to the restrained

voluptuously-textured mouthful of exceptionally extracted port

Ponsot Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru 2011 California There is even more sizeThis 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.