2023 Domaine Dujac Clos de la Roche Grand Cru

The 2023 Dujac Clos de la Roche is beautifully red fruity in personality this year. The wine’s aromatic constellation is utterly refined, offering up notes of red plums, red and black cherries, gamebird, raw cocoa, a very complex foundation of soil tones, woodsmoke, mustard seed and cedary oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, complex and shows off stunning depth of fruit at the core, with fine soil signature, ripe, seamless tannins and impeccable balance on the very long, extremely promising finish. Great juice. (Drink between 2040-2100)

Graphite, blood orange, black cherries and vanilla bean offer a generous nose. The palate is unusually soft, welcoming and fleshy—a reflection of the vintage, but it's wrapped in feisty tannins that don't worry Jeremy at this stage. There is a wholesomeness that does suggest this will come into its own in due time.