The 2021 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru has a generous nose with a mixture of red and black fruit, iodine and iris flower scents, a little musky in style. Returning after 10 minutes, it evolves a kind of New World Pinot...

(92-95 points) An ultra-fresh and attractively spicy nose blends the essence of red cherry and raspberry with those of earth and floral wisps. The cool, intense and almost crisp middleweight flavors possess terrific...

(90-93 points) This is also very firmly reduced and unreadable today. The delicious and intense middle weight flavors that do possess an appealing mouthfeel despite not being particularly concentrated that continues onto...

(92-95 points) Here too the nose is sufficiently reduced as to mask the fruit. On the palate though there is both good verve and freshness to the highly seductive and rich larger-scaled flavors that brim with sappy dry...

The 2019 Clos de la Roche Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru (picked from 17 September) is 100% de-stemmed and was racked in May and then bottled in July 2021. It has a very perfumed bouquet of cranberry and boysenberry...

(93-95 points) Cropped at nine hectoliters per hectare, Ponsot's 2021 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Cuvée Vieilles Vignes unwinds in the glass with aromas of raspberries, plums, exotic spices, candied peel, raw cocoa and...

A restrained, spicy and broad-ranging liqueur-like nose features a plenitude of spice elements on the ripe, fresh and layered nose of both red and dark currant, earth and a whiff of the sauvage. Once again there is a...