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Domaine de Montille, Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Aux Malconsorts 2010
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Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2010 Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts is a thrilling wine. Dark cherries, spices, graphite and mint are just some of the many nuances that burst from the glass in this superb, pedigreed Burgundy. The 2010 boasts incredible richness, depth and sheer power, all while capturing the ineffable sexiness of Vosne. Layers of fruit build towards a crescendo of incomparable elegance and class. The Malconsorts is slightly more floral and feminine, and shows a bit more red fruit than the Malconsorts Christiane. The 2010 is flat-out dazzling.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(100% vendange entier): Palish red. Knockout nose melds redcurrant, cherry, blood orange, minerals, flowers and exotic spices. Juicy, suave and energetic, offering great finesse and inner-mouth perfume to the fine-grained red fruit, spice and mineral flavors. Manages to be both plump and weightless in the manner of the finest red Burgundies. Wonderfully fruity, round wine with a very long, subtly spicy finish that saturates the mouth. Today, the wine's firm structure and suave tannins are in the deep background. These 2010s are wonderfully perfumed yet understated wines.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(100% vendange entier; 50% new oak): Good bright, deep red. Alluring, tangy aromas of raspberry, cranberry and Oriental spices. Pliant, thick and broad, offering a rare combination of velvety texture, superb inner-mouth perfume and lift, and serious power. Terrific underlying structure to the subtly concentrated red fruit flavors. Finishes firm and long. Very sexy today, but obviously built for a graceful evolution in bottle.
About the Producer
Domaine de Montille, located in the Cote de Beaune wine region of Bourgogne, France, is managed by siblings Alix de Montille and Etienne de Montille. It is now managed by two siblings, Alix de Montille and Etienne de Montille. The Montille Family has been living in Creancey since the 17th century, and in the mid-18th century the double Montille winery was officially founded in Volnay under the name Hubert de Montille, which was changed to Château de Montille in 1863 when Etienne's great-grandparents married. This marriage enabled the de Montille family to own estates in both Volnay and Crescentes. At that time, the De Monti family was in financial crisis as they were selling off the best grapes from their vineyards. Hubert de Montille, father of Agnès de Monti and Étienne de Monti, decided to change the business model of the estate. The vineyard was reduced to 3 hectares, and in 1947 Hubert introduced bottling equipment to the estate, which opened up a new chapter in the estate's development. 1950 saw the introduction of the latest vineyard management model in Burgundy. In 1983, Étienne de Montaigne began studying winemaking with his father. In 1995, he began to manage the vineyards using organic viticulture. Since 2002, Ennis and Etienne have been managing the estate together, following in their father's footsteps. Château De Monti currently has a total vineyard area of 20 hectares, with vineyard areas in the first and top growths of the Volnay, Pommard, Beaune, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Vosne-Romanee appellations. The vineyards of Château De Monti are blessed with a unique terroir and are planted with the appropriate grape varieties according to the soil and terroir of each vineyard, and are strictly managed in an ecological way. The red wines of Château de Monti are characterized by their freshness, elegance and full-bodied flavor profiles. The traditional Burgundian winemaking process of aging the wines in oak barrels produces excellent wines that perfectly reflect the unique terroir of the grape variety, such as Beaune Premier Cru "Les Sizies", Volnay Premier Cru "Les Mitans" and Clos-Vougeot Grand Cru. The wines of outstanding quality are very popular among consumers.
