2024 Domaine Dujac Clos-St-Denis Grand Cru

The 2024 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru is showing superbly, without any sense of the challenges the vintage presented, blossoming in the glass with aromas of peony and sweet cherry mingled with raspberry, chocolate, Sichuan pepper and a faint hint of moss. On the palate, it is full-bodied, layered and textural, with a deep core of fruit, a complete and seamless profile and sweet, satiny tannins. Offering impressive concentration in the context of the vintage and concluding with a long, rose petal-inflected finish, it stands out as one of the range’s high points.(KK)

The 2024 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru has a fragrant bouquet, perhaps a touch more precise than the Clos de la Roche, more nuanced with hints of chalk and oyster shells that infuse the red fruit. The whole bunch is very well integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-boned tannins, touches of black pepper, again quite spicy. Fine depth towards the finish though naturally not powerful or substantial like the previous two vintages. This is an able "sparring partner" for the excellent Clos de la Roche.(NM)