Clos de la Roche Vv Domaine Ponsot 2017 (OWC 6)

Description

By Decanter in 2018 (TA96)

The Ponsots’ 3.5ha holdings here are divided between the Monts Luisants and Clos de la Roche grand cru climats, producing a fine, elegant, foral cuvee with no new oak, plenty of precision and freshness and a sweet core of raspberry and wild strawberry fruit.

By Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate in 2020 (WA96)

The 2017 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Cuvee Vieilles Vignes is also showing very well from bottle, unfurling in the glass with a deep bouquet of sweet red berries, plums and cassis, complemented by sweet soil tones and lifted top notes of orange rind and peonies. Full bodied, layered and multidimensional, it’s deep and concentrated, its velvety tannins and succulent acids cloaked in an ample core of fruit. This is a brilliant wine from Domaine Ponsot.

By Allen Meadows of Burghound in 2019 (AM93-96)

A spicy, cool and gorgeously complex nose reflects notes of both red and dark currant, earth and a whiff of leather. There is excellent richness to the concentrated and beautifully textured broad-shouldered flavors that possess focused power and a subtle minerality that really comes up on the youthfully austere and strikingly long finish. As good as the Chapelle is, there is just another dimension present here.