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93-95 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2012 Richebourg Grand Cru, taken directly from a new Francois Frere barrel, is tightly wound on the nose with black cherries, bay leaf and subtle forest floor scents. This is introspective, more inward looking than say, Etienne Grivot’s at this prenatal stage. The palate is medium-bodied with rounded, succulent tannins enveloping layers of vibrant, shimmering black and red fruit loaded with min...
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The Story
Burgundy’s most sumptuous wine, and Anne Gros’ most sought-after cru, given both its bottomless complexity and its rarity. Poised, profound, pleasurable: an eternal wine.
Richebourg is a name that evokes richness, even a certain heaviness... which sometimes can be attributed to the confusion some people have.
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It is in fact an extraordinary wine in that it combines power with supreme elegance. We often describe it as... |
Vintage 2012
2012 was beset by unusual weather that didn’t spare the vines! A mild winter, spring-like March, cool spring with frosts, summer-like May, cooler, wetter June, a variable summer with heatwaves, hail and storms… Because of the cold damp spring, some of the vine flowers didn’t set and form fruit, there was millerandage (where the flowers aren’t fully fertilised and give small berries) and high pressure from mildew and odium. Temperatures went ri...
