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Anne Gros, Richebourg Grand Cru 2007
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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Medium red. Complex nose melds sweet red fruits, minerals and cocoa. Silky and aromatic in the mouth, with expressive, highly nuanced flavors of red and darker berries, exotic spices, leather, game and flowers, plus an intriguing saline quality. This boasts early appeal owing to its sheer sweetness but also possesses a fairly solid tannic spine for aging.
Reviewed by: Neal Martin
Tasted at the Domaine. Like the Clos Vougeot, this is generous on the nose (more so than the previous day according to Anne.) It has an attractive sweet of red-berried fruits, a touch of orange peel and citrus fruit. Attains a floral aspect with time in glass. The tannins are very fine, this is certainly an unashamedly lighter style of Richebourg, but that is not bad thing because it retains great elegance and purity with a pleasurable silky finish that lingers tantalizingly in the mouth. Drink 2012-2025+ Tasted November 2008.
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Aromas of espresso roast, plums and raspberries preface Anne Gros's 2007 Richebourg Grand Cru, a medium to full-bodied, ample and fleshy wine that boasts a lively core of fruit, melting tannins and an elegant profile. It's an understated rendition of this frequently lavish and dramatic cuvée that's drinking well today.
About the Producer
Subtle, harmonious, supple—Burgundy from Domaine Anne Gros is intimately tied with the elegant and poised character of wines from Vosne-Romanée. While each cru faithfully reflects its terroir, it is terroir as translated through Gros’ expert touch, offering richer aromatics, rounder curves, silkier tannins. The combination is irresistible, so much so that Gros’ very limited production is snapped up by global collectors faster and faster each vintage. Anne Gros simply is one of the top winemakers in Burgundy today, which explains why her wines have inspired such a cult-like following. Importantly for us, Gros personifies the sort of winemaker with whom we have always sought to work: an artisan with a clear vision of her terroir and talents, and the grace to be humble despite the weight of Burgundian tradition and family history. Anne Gros took over her father’s winery (Domaine François Gros) in the late 1980s. Yet there have been Gros family members in Vosne since the 1830s; land holdings have split among family members for generations. Today, there are four separate wineries in Vosne owned by the extended Gros family, including Domaine Anne Gros: Gros Frere et Soeur, Anne-Francoise Gros and Michel Gros, all of whom are Anne’s cousins.
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