2022 Domaine Michel Juillot Mercurey 1er Cru "Clos Tonnerre"

Laurent Juillot’s Clos Tonnerre is also planted to old vines, as they were sixty-four years of age in the 2022 vintage. The wine tips the scales at fourteen percent in this vintage and delivers a pure and utterly refined bouquet of red and black cherries, plums, raw cocoa, gamebird, a touch of nutskin, a beautifully complex base of soil, peonies, a whisper of fresh thyme, cedar and a gently smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and tangy, with a great core of fruit, superb soil transparency and grip, ripe, buried tannins and great backend lift on the long, complex and impeccably balanced finish. This is a simply outstanding young red Burgundy! 2035- 2075.