This Burgundy producer caught my eye with their avant-garde labels. Has anyone tried any of their offerings? Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
cool article by Bill about the domaine.
Awesome article. Thanks Fu!
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I have had them and enjoyed them. Woodland Hills Wine Co told me they were not allowed to put on the internet for sale…Why? Not sure.
I have a mag of the 05 Clos De Beze. Ask me in about 15-20 years for insight.
Dude, just build a time machine, travel into the future, drink the wine, travel back to today, and report back.
only had a few
can be a bit funky
certainly not mainstream,
good luck
Far and away the favorite burg of hipster somms in Europe. Loved by the natural wine crowd. Ugly labels. Super expensive. Older bottles have been quite mixed for me. The few younger ones I’ve had were excellent.
I haven’t had any vintages after about 2001, and have found them consistently adequate and consequently terrible values.
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In the '90s the wines were made by Pacalet. I found similarities between the P-R wines that I drank from that era to the 2007 and 2008 Pacalet wines that I’ve tried.
I basically agree with Mike Evans.
Really, really stemmy. To me that means there is no point in drinking them young for my palate.
The high prices are solely because Roch is co-owner of DRC. People are hoping the wines have some DRC magic in them. There is no basis for this hope. Different grapes, different winemaker. If there were a Prieure Roch La Tache for $250 I’d be interested.The word Prieure is an affectation he made up because it sounded cool.
i think the prices are high along with p. pacalet and f. cossard more so because they are “natural” burgundy. i would like to echo the sentiment that they are all quite bad value. at best these wines are ok. the hipster sommelier thing is spot on as well.
I’ve had a handful and haven’t been very impressed irrespective of price.
If I can believe the merchant who had just sent me a reminder for his Prieure Roch offer, I’m getting a wine of at least La Tache quality for “just” 250 Euros: The Vosne Clos Goillotte village. The story the merchant is telling is that this was supposed to be a prolongation of La Tache, but could not become Grand Cru as it was the garden of the mayor of Vosne-Romanée. I highly doubt that story as the vineyard is essentially on the same kind of slope (fairly flat land) as Les Chaumes to the south. But it’s a good story of course. When I saw that offer and the prices, I couldn’t believe my eyes. This is a domaine, I’m not very interested in.
Well Steven, Goiliotte is quite some distance from La Tâche, with plenty of houses in the way - indeed, you are right, it’s closer to Les Chaumes - so maybe that’s a better reason for it not being Grand Cru It’s actually the garden of the old hunting lodge of the dukes of Burgundy. The young wine smells of great burgundy but is nowhere near (Vosne) grand cru quality in terms of weight, texture and length - but I love the complexity.
Or I did anyway! The most recent wines I’ve tasted, direct from the domaine (link below) were smelly and not bright either. I honestly think that the older, smellier wines show the limits of ‘natural’ - at this domaine anyway - not good…!
Both Steven and Bill are correct:
Clos Goillotte is one of three Monopole Village sites in the middle of the town (the others are Clos Eugenie (former Clos Frantin) and Clos du Chateau (Liger-Belair) … and Clos Eugenie is in between La Tâche and Clos Goillotte, and the latter is closer to Chaumes (Cathiard is in between) than to LT.
Preuré Roch seems to think Goillotte is of superior quality (even to several premier crus), the price was always (too) high. While I haven´t had a lot of Goillotte my impression was that it is quite overoaked for the substance with a tendency to astringency … the Suchots, also expensive, showed a better balance … (however, nothing tasted after 2005)
La Tâche is actually far away in quality terms … I´ve had far more (older) fine Clos Frantins (Grivelet) and recent Clos du Chateaus than Goillottes …
BTW: I think Prieure Roch purchased (or rents ?) the Suchots from DRC